一名示威者挥舞着“保护言论自由”的标语，抗议暂停“吉米·金梅尔现场！该节目于2025年9月22日在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶举行，该节目在好莱坞制作的剧院附近举行。
A demonstrator waves a "Protect Free Speech" sign following a protest against the suspension of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show, held near the theater where the show is produced in Hollywood, on September 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Mario Tama/Getty Images北美华盛顿特区的联邦法院，周二上午，华特迪士尼公司将与美国首席广播监管机构展开一场法律斗争，讨论第一修正案保护在唐纳德·特朗普总统任期内能走多远。
Mario Tama/Getty Images North America A federal court in Washington, D.C., is to play host to a legal battle Tuesday morning pitting the Walt Disney Co. against the nation's chief broadcast regulator over just how far First Amendment protections can go during the presidency of Donald Trump.
特朗普总统多次呼吁迪士尼ABC电视台解雇一直嘲笑总统的深夜喜剧演员吉米·金梅尔。特朗普还经常谴责美国广播公司的《观点》，指责其自由且不公平。
President Trump has repeatedly called for Disney's ABC TV to fire late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who has consistently mocked the president. Trump has also routinely denounced ABC's The View accusing it of being liberal and unfair.
特朗普早些时候在重返办公室前起诉该电视网，原因是主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯对作家E.的判决发表了不正确的声明。让·卡罗尔针对特朗普的两起诉讼。ABC在2024年12月达成和解，支付了1600万美元，其中包括法律费用，以在特朗普重返白宫的一个月前解决这一问题。但迪士尼新任首席执行官乔什·达马罗已授权在法庭上对政府进行高风险斗争。
Trump had earlier sued the network, before returning to office, over incorrect statements anchor George Stephanopoulos made about the verdicts in writer E. Jean Carroll's two lawsuits against Trump. ABC paid $16 million in a December 2024 settlement, including legal fees, to resolve that a month before Trump went back to the White House. But new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro has authorized a high-stakes fight against the administration in court.
被特朗普提拔为联邦通信委员会主席的布伦丹·卡尔也回应了总统的抱怨。在卡尔的领导下，联邦通信委员会正在提前几年审查迪士尼对其拥有的所有八个电视台（作为ABC Network的一部分）的所有权。此前，特朗普在社交媒体上发帖数月，敦促联邦通信委员会剥夺美国广播公司的电台许可证。
Brendan Carr, whom Trump elevated to be the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has echoed the president's complaints. And under Carr, the FCC is moving to review Disney's ownership of all eight of the stations it owns, as part of the ABC Network, years ahead of schedule. That followed months of social media posts from Trump urging that the FCC strip ABC of its station licenses.
“卡尔在做什么甚至没有问题。卡尔的所作所为违宪，”罗纳德·里根总统领导下的共和党前联邦通信委员会主席马克·福勒说。福勒已提交一份声明来协助美国广播公司的诉讼，他在声明中将卡尔的行为比作审查制度。他说：“第一修正案的措辞和含义都很清楚。”
"There's not even a question as to what Carr is doing. What Carr is doing is unconstitutional," says Mark Fowler, a Republican former FCC chair under President Ronald Reagan. Fowler has filed a statement to aid ABC's lawsuit in which he likened Carr's actions to censorship. "The First Amendment is very plain in its wording and its meaning," he says.
从技术上讲，网络不需要联邦政府的许可证即可运营。电台确实需要它们利用公有广播。它们定期错开审查，并且通常不会大张旗鼓地更新。
Technically, networks do not require licenses from the federal government to operate. Stations do need them to utilize publicly owned airwaves. They are perennially reviewed on a staggered basis and are typically renewed without much fanfare.
卡尔引用了电视台服务于“公共利益”的要求，并启动了对迪士尼多元化、公平和包容性政策的调查，尽管他表示许可审查与ABC的内容无关，但他批评该网络有偏见。
Carr has cited the requirement of stations to serve the "public interest," initiated investigations of Disney's diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and, though he says the license review is not linked to ABC's content, he has blasted the network as biased.
迪士尼和美国广播公司正在寻求美国地区法官洛伦·L。AliKhan将发布命令，阻止FCC加速典型的审查流程。她迫使联邦通信委员会推迟到这次听证会之前继续推进。媒体倡导者、FCC资深人士和法律观察员表示，同时挑战ABC所有本地许可证的举动是前所未有的。如果成功，将严重损害ABC的利润。这八个电台中有六个位于主要媒体市场，对网络的利润做出了重大贡献。
Disney and ABC are seeking to get U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan to issue an order preventing the FCC from accelerating the typical review process. She had compelled the FCC to hold off from moving ahead until this hearing. Media advocates, FCC veterans and legal observers say the move to challenge all ABC's local licenses at once is unprecedented. And were it to be successful, it would hurt ABC badly in the bottom line. Six of those eight stations are in major media markets and contribute significantly to the network's bottom line.
新闻自由记者委员会主席布鲁斯·布朗表示：“联邦通信委员会的越权行为是新闻业目前面临的最大威胁之一。”
"The overreaching by the FCC is one of the greatest threats right now that's facing journalism," says Bruce Brown, the president of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
卡尔在八月份接受NPR采访时表示，该机构尚未决定是否从ABC撤回电台许可证。他说，相反，美国广播公司抱怨他认真对待法律中“公共利益”部分的努力。他说该网络正在超前。该机构尚未对ABC的许可证采取任何行动，只是加快了审查速度。
In an interview with NPR in August, Carr said that the agency has not decided whether to pull the station licenses from ABC. Instead, he said, ABC is complaining about his drive to take the "public interest" component of the law seriously. And he said that the network is getting ahead of itself. The agency has not yet taken any action against ABC's licenses — merely sped up their review.
这个问题可能会成为周二法律争论的一部分，因为它将有助于确定美国广播公司和迪士尼是否有资格提起诉讼。
That question may consume part of the legal wrangling on Tuesday as it will help determine whether ABC and Disney have standing to sue.
保守派团体，包括美国参议院和众议院共和党候选人的筹款机构，提交了支持联邦通信委员会的简报，并推而广之，总统对偏见的抱怨。
Conservative groups, including the fundraising outfits for U.S. Senate and House Republican candidates, filed briefs to support the FCC, and by extension, the president's complaints about bias.
共和党筹款委员会在一份法庭文件中表示：“按照任何常识标准，广播公司有意在《观点》上推动民主党人物候选资格的证据不仅存在，而且压倒性。”
"By any commonsense standard, evidence of broadcaster intent to advance the candidacies of Democratic Party figures on The View is not merely present, but overwhelming," the Republican fundraising committees say in a court filing.
即便如此，几个通常隶属于保守派的团体也对司法部的案件发表了看法，其中包括卡托研究所、竞争企业研究所和政策创新研究所。
Even so, several groups often affiliated with conservatives have weighed in against the Justice Department's case, including the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Policy Innovation.
他们指出，卡尔严厉谴责了美国广播公司的内容，似乎直接呼应了特朗普的谴责--他曾在2025年9月的右翼播客中表示，美国广播公司摆脱金梅尔“可以用简单的方式或艰难的方式做到这一点。“几个小时后，美国广播公司（ABC）暂停了金梅尔的职务，因为他发表了有关杀害保守派活动家查理·柯克的言论。在公众的强烈抗议下，停职很快被取消。
They note that Carr has roundly condemned ABC over its content, and in seeming direct echoes of Trump's condemnations — at one point saying on a right-wing podcast in September 2025 that ABC getting rid of Kimmel "can do this the easy way or the hard way." ABC suspended Kimmel hours later over remarks he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
上周在布鲁克林录制的一集《吉米·金梅尔现场》中，美国全国广播公司《深夜秀》的讽刺作家塞思·迈耶斯和HBO《最后一周今晚》的约翰·奥利弗向美国广播公司的对手致敬。
The suspension was soon lifted after a public outcry. Fellow satirists Seth Meyers of NBC's Late Night and John Oliver of HBO's Last Week Tonight paid tribute to their ABC counterpart during an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live taped last week in Brooklyn.
“你一直都在。[粉丝]通常会说，被现任总统讨厌是什么感觉？我们总是说，只要你在节目中，我们就没事，”奥利弗告诉金梅尔。“我们全力支持你--就像我们全力支持防弹背心一样。“新闻自由记者委员会代表美国广播公司提交了一份法庭之友简报，聘请了一位在美国最高法院多次辩称的前美国司法部长在地区法院代表该组织。
"You come up all the time. [Fans] will normally say, how does it feel, being disliked by the current president? And we always say, as long as you're on the air, we're fine," Oliver told Kimmel. "We are fully behind you — the way we're fully behind a bulletproof vest." The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed a friend of the court brief on ABC's behalf, hiring a former U.S. solicitor general who has argued repeatedly before the U.S. Supreme Court, to represent the organization at the district court level.
该组织主席布鲁斯·布朗指出了卡尔和其他特朗普任命者的一系列其他行动：联邦通信委员会已对包括NPR在内的所有广播网络展开调查（福克斯除外，该公司由总统的盟友鲁珀特和拉克兰·默多克控制）;政府切断了许多记者在白宫和五角大楼的采访，而联邦特工则试图访问记者的设备以识别匿名消息来源;与此同时，总统一直试图使其新闻发布引发公众愤怒的媒体合法性。
Bruce Brown, president of the group, pointed at a series of other actions by Carr and other Trump appointees: The FCC has launched investigations into all broadcast networks, including NPR (save Fox, which is controlled by the president's allies, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch); The administration has cut off access for many journalists at the White House and the Pentagon, while federal agents sought access to journalists' devices to identify anonymous sources; all the while, the president has sought to delegitimize media outlets whose presentation of the news has sparked public displays of anger.
布朗说：“这只是特朗普政府恐吓媒体的广泛努力的一部分，并试图迫使新闻机构退出总统希望看到的类型报道。”
"This is only one part of a wide effort by the Trump administration to intimidate the press — and to try to coerce out of news organizations the type of coverage the president wants to see," Brown says.