WASHINGTON, D.C. — Warning that the government cannot use its regulatory powers to punish or intimidate news organizations for speech it dislikes, The Rutherford Institute has joined a coalition of civil liberties organizations to push back against the Trump Administration’s attempts to undermine the constitutionally protected freedom of the press.
In an amicus brief filed in American Broadcasting Companies v. Federal Communications Commission, The Rutherford Institute, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and a broad coalition of civil liberties groups have asked a federal court to halt the Federal Communications Commission’s unprecedented efforts to use its licensing authority as a pretextual means of retaliating against ABC over editorial decisions and programming critical of the Trump Administration.
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