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ABC to federal judge: Trump’s FCC is holding our head on a ‘guillotine’

ABC argued in federal court Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s FCC has “chilled” the network’s free speech by using its “enormous regulatory power to coerce, threaten, punish” coverage the administration doesn’t like.

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