Judge denies the emergency hearing but locks in 48 hours' notice… 61 Trump-related media suits since 2015, 25 of them in the past 20 months
ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Aug. 18, in Case 1:26-cv-02902. Parent company Disney and the eight owned stations whose licenses are under review joined as plaintiffs; the defendants include the FCC, Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioners Olivia Trusty and Anna Gomez.
The claim rests on the First Amendment. ABC argues that the order for an accelerated review of its local station licenses is retaliation for its reporting and programming choices, and it moved for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to stop the proceeding.