Right-wing cable channel Newsmax is suing Fox News, alleging the network has illegally cornered the market on viewership among conservatives.

In a lawsuit filed in Florida on Wednesday, Newsmax attorneys argue Fox has "long engaged in an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for U.S. right-leaning pay TV news, resulting in suppression of competition in that market that harms consumers, competition, and Newsmax."

"Fox leverages this market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax," the lawsuit reads.

In a statement to The Hill, a Fox News spokesperson pushed back on the suit, saying Newsmax "cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to ch

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