In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line

Sunday, September 21, 2025

The Supreme Court has distinguished bully-pulpit persuasion, which is permissible under the First Amendment, from coercion and threats, which are not.

Posted by LauraMohr at 09:31 AM | 29 COMMENTS | permalink

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner issued a statement backing Jimmy Kimmel, whose late-night show was suspended indefinitely by Disney's subsidiary ABC.

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-- CNBC (@cnbc.com) Sep 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Trump May have crossed constitutional line
Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line The Supreme Court [...].
Posted by LauraMohr

In a survey, five out of nine supreme court justices on Trump's SCOTUS ROFL at Laura's belief they will stop Trump from doing anything he decides.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-09-19 06:24 PM

There is no more constitution.

Trump wiped his ass with it.

MAGA cheered him on.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-19 06:31 PM

ROFLMMFAO HEHEHEHEHE THAT'S HILARIOUS

Talk to the hand .

Pfffffffftttttttt

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-19 06:55 PM

#2 yup

The same idiots that never stopped blathering about it all the fake times a Dem did it.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-19 06:59 PM

You think!?

#5 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-09-20 10:09 AM

Kimmel should have been fired a long time ago. he was bleeding viewership. key Demo down 72% over the last 8-10 years!! you can't produce -72% and keep your job why should he

#6 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-09-21 11:02 AM

Then he wasn't a threat to you, now was he? So why the desperate need to crush him personally, and scream about what he said? You morons were apoplectic over what he said when he said nothing. You're so out of control it's embarrassing - but you're such emotional runts you can't see it.

#7 | Posted by YAV at 2025-09-21 11:07 AM

Brendan Carr wears a pedo 47 pin on his lapel.

www.instagram.com

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-21 11:10 AM

Oh noes! Trumpy done crossed the line!

Quick!

Better drawn another line.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-21 11:44 AM

Brendan Carr wears a pedo 47 pin on his lapel.

Gawd that thing is UGLY and garish!
Spitting image of Trump in both ways!

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2025-09-21 11:49 AM

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#11 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-09-21 12:39 PM

#6 | Posted by Maverick

You'd probably have a point if that were the reason given for firing Kimmel, and the if the time were different. But it wasn't.

#12 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-09-21 02:56 PM

MAY have crossed a constitutional line?

If Obama or Biden had done ANY of the crazy things Trump has done in the last eight months, there would have been impeachment hearings from the house and talks of secession in TX and FL.

#13 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-09-21 03:14 PM

And the reality is, if you listen to what Kimmel actually said, there was nothing there that disparaged Charlie Kirk. Kimmel was simply commenting on the fact that Trump and the MAGA crowd was going crazy trying make sure that the shooter was not one them (keep in mind that Kimmel made his remarks before Tyler Robinson had been identified as the alleged shooter).

OCU

#14 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-09-21 03:32 PM

#14 - EXACTLY.

#15 | Posted by YAV at 2025-09-21 03:38 PM

Disparaging Trump is even worst.

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-21 03:42 PM

Colbert Kimmell MSNBC
All being ditched for low ratings and leftist fatigue. Just business.
Leftist being a thin minority is the elephant in the room, most people OK with the left were only so because of Trump disgust, which is part of the plan I'm sure. Mask slips a bit and regulars say nah.
We're all just numbers on a spreadsheet, you know.

I miss you Corky, will make a new user soon, just for you.

#17 | Posted by sir_vicks at 2025-09-21 06:13 PM

leftist fatigue

It's only been 8 months and America is over Trump and MAGA.

Which is why republicans are doing everything they can to change the rules before next years election.

"If you can't win, cheat."
-Republican Motto

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-21 06:19 PM

Also, the Republicans are following the money. Taxpayers funded USAID and USAID funded NGOs, the NGOs in turn paid the DNC and networks to air Left Wing propaganda. well, now the money has dried up and all the puppets are going away. And, the DNC is having a rough time making payroll

#19 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-09-21 06:50 PM

the Republicans are following the money.

They should follow it to Elon Musk buying the 2024 election.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-22 02:31 AM

As if anyone would/will do anything about it.

#21 | Posted by silentwalker at 2025-09-22 10:40 AM

So it was all BS.

#22 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-09-22 11:14 PM

Kimmel was simply commenting on the fact that Trump and the MAGA crowd was going crazy trying make sure that the shooter was not one them

I can already tell you're confused. There was nothing to go crazy about, there was literally no reason to assume the shooter was MAGA.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-22 11:47 PM

It's been very cute watching lefties pretend to care about censorship.

I'll say it again - abolish the FCC. WAY too much discretionary power. Ripe for abuse.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-22 11:58 PM

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

Google Admits Political Censorship on YouTube, Promises to Embrace Free Speech
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Sundar Pichai of Google with a thumbs upNathan Laine/Bloomberg/Getty
SEAN MORAN23 Sep 20252,365
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Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, admitting that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Americans that did not violate the company's terms of service, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

#25 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-09-23 01:56 PM

Google Admits hate speech Censorship on YouTube, Promises to Embrace hate Speech

Donald Trump really is making the world better for Nazis.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-23 01:58 PM

I remember when Elon Musk reinstated "freedom of speech" on X.

The use of the word ni**er skyrocketed.

MSG can't wait to unleash on YouTube.

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-23 02:01 PM

I'll say it again - abolish the FCC. WAY too much discretionary power. Ripe for abuse.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger

I know why billionaires want to be unregulated. Why do YOU want billionaires to be unregulated?

Was the country a better place or worse place before reagan killed the fairness doctrine?

#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-23 02:44 PM

Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, admitting that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Americans that did not violate the company's terms of service, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

#25 | Posted by MSgt

How revealing that you consider russian espionage attacks to be republican political speech.

#29 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-23 02:45 PM

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