Jimmy Kimmel and the Right's Free Speech Debate

_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has begun a broad-based effort to clamp down on “radical left lunatics,” as described by Vice President JD Vance.

But those efforts recently took an unexpected turn when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indirectly threatened ABC after late-night host Jimmy Kimmel made a series of offensive and false remarks about Kirk’s death. Kimmel’s show was pulled off the air indefinitely.