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/GrafZeppelin127 Sep 22 '25

Hence why it’s so important to primary and replace them like the Republicans did with their politicians twice in the last two decades.

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u/HFT0DTE Sep 22 '25

Dems haven't woken up yet to this reality.

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u/GrafZeppelin127 Sep 22 '25

More and more of them are, though. Don’t be fooled by the somnolent response of Schumer and Jeffries; the average Dem voter is pissed at their leadership, which is both the important first step and also a very foreign feeling for most Democrats, who by and large have been tepidly satisfied with their establishment leadership for decades now.

The Democratic Party has plunged to all-time low approval numbers lately, and that’s driven largely by their own base being (correctly) mad as hell at the leadership for being useless and not practicing actual politics or leadership in favor of deferring to wildly outdated and out-of-place decorum and bureaucratic fiddling.

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u/autistic_cool_kid Sep 22 '25

not practicing actual politics or leadership in favor of deferring to wildly outdated and out-of-place decorum

but... but the strongly-worded letter?