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Disney Sues Donald Trump’s FCC Over 'Retaliatory Campaign' Against ABC

Disney has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission is violating its First Amendment rights. According to court documents obtained by CNN and Reuters on Tuesday, August 18, Disney claimed the Trump administration “has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: It disapproves of what ABC broadcasts.” In the suit, Disney claimed the FCC is seeking to coerce and retaliate against “a network that ​refuses to bow to the administration’s demands,” calling the agency’s actions an “extraordinary ass...

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