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ABC lawyers accuse Trump’s FCC of punishing network for political reasons

The Guardian · May 8, 2026, 5:34 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

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Network lawyers in a legal motion strongly pushed back against the FCC’s investigation into The View talkshow Lawyers representing an ABC station have accused the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of punishing the network for political purposes in a strongly worded attack on the Trump-controlled commission’s investigation into top-rated talkshow, The View.In a legal motion filed on Thursday, KTRK-TV, a Houston-based local television station owned by ABC, pushed back strongly against the FCC investigation, accusing the purportedly independent agency of taking actions that “threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to The View and more broadly”. Continue reading...

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