Imagine you are FCC Chair Brendan Carr. President Trump demands ABC's broadcast license be revoked for critical coverage of the Saudi Crown Prince. What constraints limit your ability to comply?
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Imagine you are FCC Chair Brendan Carr. President Trump demands ABC's broadcast license be revoked for critical coverage of the Saudi Crown Prince. What constraints limit your ability to comply?

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Carr faces multiple constraints: federal law (47 U.S.C. § 312) limits grounds to technical violations and deliberate false statements, not content. First Amendment forbids content-based decisions. Administrative Procedure Act requires notice, comment, hearing, and written findings. Any order faces court review. Congress could investigate. Other commissioners could vote against it. Media would scrutinize. Career staff would raise objections. His for-cause protection might incentivize resistance. how institutional constraints distribute power so one person—even the president—cannot unilaterally get what he wants.

Imagine you are FCC Chair Brendan Carr. President Trump demands ABC's broadcast license be revoked for critical coverage of the Saudi Crown Prince. What constraints limit your ability to comply?

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