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Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy
“Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.”…
Thomas Berry, a legal expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, said that "it's hard not to read [Carr's statement] as a fairly explicit threat to punish Disney if they didn't take Jimmy Kimmel off the air, and that's exactly what ABC did very shortly thereafter. "Here, Carr didn't just criticize Kimmel's message—he threatened regulatory consequences if ABC failed to act," wrote Daniel Lyons, a law professor who is also a fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute. Lyons wrote that the Supreme Court's 2024 ruling in National Rifle Association v. Vullo"makes clear that using threats of adverse government action to suppress speech can be coercive, giving rise to a plausible claim."
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