Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension from his late night television job after a Trump administration official publicly urged ABC and its parent company Disney to “take action on Kimmel” prompted warnings of government censorship from several quarters Thursday, including congressional Democrats , former President Barack Obama , and, closer to home, the ACLU of Nevada, and Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen.

Athar Haseebullah, executive director of the ACLU of Nevada, along with the civil liberties nonprofit’s legal director Chris Peterson, took to a social media broadcast Thursday to fold the Kimmel issue into the many recent efforts to chill free speech.

The Nevada organization normally focuses on “dire and grave threats” to the rights of Nevadans, Haseebullah noted, but the networ

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