Trump’s FCC chairman takes center stage in a renewed free speech debate: From the Politics Desk

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The president of the FCC generally does not attract much attention, but in today’s publishing, Daniel Arkin examines how it changed during the Trump administration. In addition, Adam Edelman reports on the return of Pete Buttigieg in Indiana, the site of the next reducing the GOP.

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Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension highlights Trump’s FCC chair

By Daniel Arkin

President Donald Trump welcomed Brendan Carr as “warrior for freedom of expression” when he typed him as president of the Federal Communications Commission, the independent agency that regulates the television industry and other platforms.

Carr was up to the warrior nickname. Since its workplace, Carr has launched a wave of surveys against the main media societies and has criticized some for the perceived liberal prejudices.

He seems to have marked his biggest victory to date with ABC’s decision to offer Jimmy Kimmel’s late evening show for only a few hours after criticizing the actor for his comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

“We have not yet finished,” said Carr on CNBC today, while Kimmel defenders and FCC criticism accused him of making me crack against freedom of expression in America.

The president of the FCC generally does not attract the spotlight, but Carr has often made the headlines. He took eminent names such as CBS News and the New York Times, and his office launched official criticism of “Big Three” Diffusion Networks – ABC, CBS and NBC – as well as NPR and PBS.

“I think this is unprecedented,” said Craig Aaron, a co-chief of Free Press, a non-profit organization that pleads against corporate monopolies in the media. “I think there are many people who have been in power or who were in the White House who, in the past, who would like to fold and abuse the power of the FCC, to fold the will of the media which covers them and the actors who make fun of them – but they have never dared to go so far.”

The background: Carr, known for having worn a gold color pin modeled on the profile of Trump, worked as a lawyer in a private office before joining the FCC in 2012 as a staff lawyer. He was then an advisor to the former president of the FCC, Ajit Pai. Trump appointed Carr to a republican siege to the Commission in 2017, during the president’s first term, before raising it to the highest position.

During the years that followed, Carr had noted his profile within the Republican Party and the wider conservative ecosystem. He wrote a chapter on the FCC policy document for the “mandate for leadership” policy of the Heritage Foundation – better known as Project 2025.

“The FCC should promote freedom of expression,” Carr wrote in the opening of his chapter.

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More Kirk shooting benefits:

• The Trump administration develops plans to take measures against left -wing groups that the president and his allies accuse of foment political violence, potentially this month, Vaughn Hillyard, Jonathan Allen and Kelly O’Donnell report.
• Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruitment campaign that would encourage young people to honor Kirk’s heritage by joining the army, reports Courtney Kube.
• Maga influencers and GOP legislators have pushed rapid consequences against anyone who shed light on his murder – and teachers, teachers and school staff were examined in particular, reports Tyler Kingkade.
• Erika Kirk was appointed CEO of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization which was co -founded and led by her husband, Katherine Doyle.

Pete Buttigieg enters the red -cutting cat

By Adam Edelman

Pete Buttigieg has become the last candidate for the potential democratic presidential election to jump into the melee of redistribution, assisting a rally in Indiana to repel the GOP’s plans to redraw the card of the Congress of the State before the middle of next year.

Buttigieg has described the redistribution efforts of mid-December as “cheating” and has sworn that “if they do the bad thing, we will be here to keep them politically responsible”.

Summing the past allegations of President Donald Trump on electoral fraud, Buttigieg said that the Republicans “tried to undermine our confidence in the way our neighbors lead our elections in our communities.”

“I’m not talking about changing what is inside a machine. I am not talking about changing a vote that went in a direction and giving the impression that it came. I am talking about a shape of cheating immediately,” said buttigieg. “They admit aloud that they don’t have to do this to manipulate the results of an election.”

The Republicans already control seven of the nine districts of the Indiana Congress, but the party seeks to make breakthroughs wherever it can because it seeks to protect a majority of the thin house like a razor. The Republican Governor of Indiana, Mike Braun, said this week that a special legislative session on redistribution “will probably occur” and that not to keep a risk of Trump’s return.

“If we try to drag our feet as a state, we will probably have consequences for not working with the Trump administration as closely as we should,” he said an Indiana Talk radio station.

Aside buttigieg, other democratic hopes of the White House tried to make their mark on the issue.

In California, Governor Gavin Newsom aggressively pushed a plan to help redesign the Congress map of his state in response to republican efforts in Texas, while the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker helped provide refuge to the Democrats de Texas who fled the state to delay the plans of the GOP.

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Speaking of 2028: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said former vice-president Kamala Harris will have to “answer” to explain why she had not spoken publicly about Joe Biden’s ability to serve during her presidential mandate, Allan Smith and Shaquille Brewster.

It’s all of the political bureau for the moment. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Bridget Bowman.

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