In the 24 hours after ABC announced it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air , FCC chairman Brendan Carr has made a wave of media appearances, on CNBC, Fox News and a podcast, and he’s made more threats.

On Thursday, asked by Scott Jennings what other ABC programming could come under the agency’s scrutiny, Carr mentioned The View , whose co-hosts have been critical of Donald Trump.

Later, the Trump himself suggested that broadcasters’ licenses could be threatened when they feature too much late-night content with biting humor at his expense.

These types of regulatory threats have a term — “jawboning” — and courts don’t like it, legal experts say. It’s when a public official uses their position to “inappropriately compel private action,” per Will Duffield of the Cato

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