U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which oversees the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), senior member of the Committee, Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Telecommunications and Media Subcommittee, and all Democratic members of the Committee sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr.
The letter demands that he immediately stop threatening media organizations over content the Trump Administration does not like, in violation of the First Amendment.
The letter follows comments by Carr on a right-wing podcast suggesting that the FCC would take action against ABC and its parent company, Disney, over a monologue by comedian Jimmy Kimmel on his late-n