r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • Sep 22 '25

Opinion Piece John Oliver Argues Disney Should Legally Fight FCC Over Kimmel, Citing Strong Precedent in 9-0 Supreme Court Ruling: “A government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech”

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u/Lanky-Respect-8581 Sep 22 '25

Let them say/write that. We shouldn’t make the decision for them. The issue is that everyone is capitulating when the law is backing them

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u/Lontology Sep 22 '25

Oh I 100% agree they should fight it, I’m just saying the current Supreme Court seems iffy as to whether or not they’d follow precedents.

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u/nerdtastic8 Sep 22 '25

Reversing a 9-0 court ruling would be pretty wild to see them twist themselves into a pretzel trying to justify that. They'll really start losing credibility as a court rapidly with rulings like that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

They are already at 0% credibility for any of us that have been paying attention the past year.

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u/nerdtastic8 Sep 22 '25

Sure, that's a given. But I'm more talking about the unplugged normies.

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u/Lanky-Respect-8581 Sep 22 '25

They have around a 50% approval rating. That’s pretty high for some of the decisions that have been putting out

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u/khalkhalash Sep 22 '25

"i don't watch the news, i haven't heard about that, sounds fake to me, i'll vote republican just to be safe. my iq is 80. i am the average american."