ABC's suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel "isn't a First Amendment issue," U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, said Thursday.

That's because the First Amendment applies to conduct by government and not to private companies like ABC, Hageman, a lawyer, said on the Cowboy State Daily Show with Jake.

Kimmel made controversial comments about last week's assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem. Hageman was referring to those comments and ABC's decision to immediately take him off the air indefinitely.

“ … [W]hen you say something horrific and horrible about someone who was just assassinated, your employer might have consequences for you,” Hageman said. “That isn't a First Amendment issue. The First Amendment applies to the government, bu

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