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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — As the Trump administration pressures ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel, the Trump-aligned FCC is planning to challenge the network’s station licenses, setting up a legal battle with ABC’s parent company Disney.

The FCC is preparing to “call in all of the TV station licenses for Disney/ABC for early renewal,” a source familiar with the matter told CNN, confirming a report by Semafor.

The paperwork could be filed as early as Tuesday afternoon, the source said.

Station licensees have broad legal protection, but the early-renewal orders would be an extraordinary escalation by the Trump administration.

Disney had no immediate comment on the potential government action. The company has not weighed in on Trump’s Monday afternoon Truth Social post blaming Kimmel for Saturday’s shooting incident outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and saying he “should be immediately fired.”

But actions speak louder than words, and Disney’s actions have shown support for Kimmel. Airing his show Monday night was the strongest defense of all, particularly because the show was briefly suspended last fall amid an earlier campaign of government pressure against ABC.

In his Monday night monologue, Kimmel said his comment last week that has garnered so much criticism in the wake of the shooting — about First Lady Melania Trump looking like an “expectant widow” — was a joke “about the fact that (Trump is) almost 80 and she’s younger than I am.”

Kimmel told viewers, “Trump is allowed to say whatever he wants to say, as are you and as am I and as are all of us, because under the First Amendment we have as Americans the right to free speech.”

The FCC’s early-renewal order to Disney, if delivered, would set up a First Amendment clash. The order would be widely viewed as a form of government retaliation for airing Kimmel’s show and resisting Trump’s pressure.

That’s because the Disney licenses in question — covering eight ABC owned-and-operated stations in cities like New York and Chicago — aren’t due to be renewed for years.

But FCC chair Brendan Carr signaled last month that he might take this step, writing on X, “The Communications Act authorizes the FCC to call in licenses for early renewal.”

The FCC had not filed an early-renewal order in decades, according to the source, until Monday, when the agency took action against a small station license holder called Bridge News. Details were not immediately clear.

The FCC order against Disney would trigger a lengthy hearing process, giving the ABC stations multiple chances to beat back the Trump administration’s pressure. But stations have to be willing to defend themselves, which costs time and money.

The source familiar with the matter told CNN that the FCC will claim the license review stems from an ongoing probe into Disney’s DEI practices, not the Kimmel controversy.

The FCC also sent a “letter of inquiry” to ABC about its daytime talk show “The View” earlier this year, signaling an investigation into whether “equal time” rules were violated. Liberal commentary on “The View” has long fueled conservative complaints about media bias.

The FCC’s enforcement powers are limited, which is why numerous analysts — and the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner Anna Gomez — have suggested that the process is the intended punishment.

Gomez said Tuesday, of

Por Brian Stelter, CNN

Al mismo tiempo que el Gobierno de Donald Trump presiona a ABC para que despida a Jimmy Kimmel, la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones (FCC, por sus siglas en inglés), alineada con el presidente, planea impugnar las licencias de las estaciones de ABC.

La FCC se está preparando para “solicitar la revisión de todas las licencias de las estaciones de televisión de Disney/ABC para su renovación anticipada”, afirmó una fuente familiarizada con el asunto, confirmando así un informe de Semafor.

La fuente indicó que la documentación se presentará esta misma tarde.

Los titulares de licencias de estaciones gozan de una amplia protección legal. No obstante, las órdenes de renovación anticipada constituirían, aun así, una escalada extraordinaria por parte la Casa Blanca y serían percibidas de manera generalizada como una represalia por emitir el programa de Kimmel y por resistirse a las presiones de Trump.

Según la fuente, la FCC no había emitido una orden de renovación anticipada en décadas, hasta este lunes, momento en que la agencia tomó medidas contra un pequeño titular de licencias de estaciones llamado Bridge News. Los detalles de ese caso no quedaron claros de inmediato.

Las licencias de Disney en cuestión —correspondientes a ocho estaciones de ABC que son propiedad y están bajo la operación directa de la cadena en ciudades como Nueva York y Chicago— no vencen ni requieren renovación hasta dentro de varios años.

Sin embargo, el presidente de la FCC, Brendan Carr, dio indicios el mes pasado de que podría adoptar esta medida al tuitear que “la Ley de Comunicaciones faculta a la FCC para solicitar la revisión de licencias con fines de renovación anticipada”.

La orden de la FCC contra Disney desencadenaría un prolongado proceso de audiencias, que ofrecería múltiples oportunidades a las estaciones de ABC para repeler las presiones de la administración Trump. No obstante, las estaciones deben estar dispuestas a defenderse, lo cual conlleva una inversión de tiempo y dinero.

La fuente familiarizada con el asunto declaró a CNN que la FCC argumentará que la revisión de las licencias deriva de una investigación en curso sobre las prácticas de DEI (diversidad, equidad e inclusión) de Disney, y no de la controversia suscitada en torno a Kimmel.

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(CNN) — In an unusually biting court filing that mimicked the classic tone of President Donald Trump, the Justice Department asked a federal judge late Monday to undo a ruling that would have halted construction of a massive new White House ballroom.

The DOJ’s request argued the suspected gunman who showed up at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “confirms” that the injunction issued by US District Judge Richard Leon “is intolerable and unsustainable.”

The sharply worded filing represents the Trump administration’s latest bid to get out from under a protracted legal battle brought by the nation’s top historic preservation group against the ballroom project, which has resulted in several key rulings from Leon that say Trump cannot proceed with the project until Congress expressly authorizes it.

The latest eight-page filing signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Associate Attorney General Stan Woodward is dotted with language that has become commonplace in the president’s social media.

“The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a beautiful name, but even their name is FAKE because when they add the words ‘in the United States’ to the National Trust for Historic Preservation it makes it sound like a Governmental Agency, which it is not,” the filing begins.

Though Leon’s decisions have been put on hold by a federal appeals court, lawyers for Trump over the weekend demanded the National Trust for Historic Preservation drop its case against the ballroom, which the group is refusing to do. In response, the administration turned to Leon to ask him to rescind a ruling earlier this month that said workers could not move forward with any above-ground construction of the ballroom but could proceed with finishing a highly sophisticated bunker being built under the site of the former East Wing.

The filing, which was not signed by any career lawyers at the department, claims the underlying case is “frivolous,” though Leon has never made such a finding in the matter. It criticizes the Trust as having “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and asks why anyone would object to the project given the fact that it’s being paid for through private donations.

“This Court should never have enjoined this project, but now, after the Saturday night attempted assassination, which could have never taken place in the new facility, reasonable minds can no longer differ – The injunction must be dissolved,” the lawyers wrote in the filing.

“The fact that an assassin came mere seconds from shooting the president – along with his family, the bulk of his Cabinet, his senior staff, and the Washington press corps—lays bare that D.C. does not have a secure space for large high-profile events, or one able to ‘accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government,’” the filing reads. “What he did on Saturday night could not have taken place in this new and highly secure facility!”

Observers, however, have pointed out that the press gala is a private event held outside the White House and that a new ballroom would not change that reality.

And Leon has previously rejected claims from the administration that halting work on the project endangers the life of the president or others at the White House.

“The court has taken defendants’ invocation of national security and presidential security seriously throughout this case, which is why I included a safety-and-security exception in my original order,” Leon wrote in his ruling earlier this month that rejected Trump’s bid to continue work on the entire project for national security purposes.

Lawyers for the trust, too, have stressed that they consider th