What a Supreme Court decision could mean for Trump FCC pressure on broadcasters

Suggestions by President Donald Trump and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr that broadcaster licenses could be revoked over disfavored views expressed on their airwaves could run afoul of a unanimous Supreme Court decision just last year addressing alleged pressure by government officials to silence speech. The case -- National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo -- has striking similarities to the current debate. The National Rifle Association had sued the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) alleging its superintendent, Maria Vullo, had violated the First Amendment by coercing DFS-regulated insurance companies and banks from doing business with the NRA in a bid to punish or suppress the group's gun rights advocacy. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for t