Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is rushing to Jimmy Kimmel’s rescue as the unlikely allies fight President Donald Trump’s efforts to protect taxpayer-owned airwaves from inundation by leftwing propaganda and hate speech.
\n\nThe Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Cruz, marked up the JAWBONE Act on Wednesday morning. It now awaits action before the Senate.
\n\nThe bill might be more about Cruz, who has a record cozying up to establishment media, earning chits ahead of an expected anti-Trumpism presidential run.
\n\nMost notoriously, Cruz pushed the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) which would have created and protected an establishment media cartel and put conservative media outlets out of business.
\n\nCruz’s latest bill‘s purpose, according to the Texas Senator and his Democrat ally, Sen. Ron Wyden (OR), would make it illegal for an agency, or an officer or employee of the United States, including the President and Vice President, from coercing or attempting to coerce a broadcaster.
\n\nThe bill would even allow plaintiffs to seek monetary damages.
\n\nBut if the bill were to become law, overzealous Democrat state attorneys general, or even private citizens, could bring suits against Trump for remarking or posting about content decisions of broadcasters — which he has done…
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