
First Lady Melania Trump's public condemnation of Jimmy Kimmel's joke increased pressure on ABC and contributed to calls for the network to act. That pressure escalated into regulatory scrutiny, and ABC has since filed that the administration's actions amount to efforts to chill constitutionally protected speech. The combined public and regulatory backlash over the Kimmel segment pushed the dispute toward formal FCC actions and litigation.
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