President Donald Trump has applauded the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show over comments he made about the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk.
Classic government censorship. Just the threat qualifies. Kimmel and Colbert should be suing their networks and the Trump Administration for censorship and violating their 1st Amendment Rights.
They probably don’t have standing to sue. The First Amendment is a restriction on government and not the networks, and the Trump administration’s assault on the First Amendment is against the networks and not the hosts.
The fascists are being more careful about who and how they target their enemies than people realize.
It has come out that most of the execs at ABC were against the Kimmel “suspension,” but the few top decision makers were concerned about Trump pulling their broadcast license.
So this was a decision to censor based on pressure from the administration. That is classic censorship, and a violation of the 1st Amendment.
It was the same for Colbert. If CBS wanted government approval for their sale, they had to shut him up. Again, classic censorship.
Each of those hosts makes millions each year, and probably had another 20 years on their careers. Then there are all the crew members out of work. It would be a great class action lawsuit.
I can’t imagine that the ACLU isn’t interested in this. They are probably studying all the variables, and seeing what else is coming, before announcing anything.
It’s important to remember that the ACLU isn’t a law firm you can hire. They are an activist organization, and they look for cases that can demonstrate specific legal/ political points they want to make, and create legal precedents that will influence all future litigation.
So it’s possible that this case is perfectly viable, but doesn’t have the elements they are looking for, so they let a normal law firm handle it. Think of all the race cases that end up with one of the big civil rights lawyers. Any of those cases would look like good cases for the ACLU, but in many cases they’ve already fought similar cases in the past, creating legal precedent for the rest of the law world to follow. They’ve already done their part by creating precedent, now it’s time for other lawyers to benefit by that.
Classic government censorship. Just the threat qualifies. Kimmel and Colbert should be suing their networks and the Trump Administration for censorship and violating their 1st Amendment Rights.
They probably don’t have standing to sue. The First Amendment is a restriction on government and not the networks, and the Trump administration’s assault on the First Amendment is against the networks and not the hosts.
The fascists are being more careful about who and how they target their enemies than people realize.
It has come out that most of the execs at ABC were against the Kimmel “suspension,” but the few top decision makers were concerned about Trump pulling their broadcast license.
So this was a decision to censor based on pressure from the administration. That is classic censorship, and a violation of the 1st Amendment.
It was the same for Colbert. If CBS wanted government approval for their sale, they had to shut him up. Again, classic censorship.
Each of those hosts makes millions each year, and probably had another 20 years on their careers. Then there are all the crew members out of work. It would be a great class action lawsuit.
ACLU quiet as shit rn …. Weird
I can’t imagine that the ACLU isn’t interested in this. They are probably studying all the variables, and seeing what else is coming, before announcing anything.
It’s important to remember that the ACLU isn’t a law firm you can hire. They are an activist organization, and they look for cases that can demonstrate specific legal/ political points they want to make, and create legal precedents that will influence all future litigation.
So it’s possible that this case is perfectly viable, but doesn’t have the elements they are looking for, so they let a normal law firm handle it. Think of all the race cases that end up with one of the big civil rights lawyers. Any of those cases would look like good cases for the ACLU, but in many cases they’ve already fought similar cases in the past, creating legal precedent for the rest of the law world to follow. They’ve already done their part by creating precedent, now it’s time for other lawyers to benefit by that.
But against who?
The Trump admin didn’t fire them, and the networks can fire them. It’s the network that has standing to sue the administration, but they won’t.