Disney is suing the FCC in a departure from former CEO Bob Iger's strategy

Disney, under CEO Josh D'Amaro, is suing Brendan Carr's FCC.

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Disney; Eric Lee/Getty Images Disney has sued the FCC, alleging "blatant retaliation" against its content.

ABC said the Trump administration has repeatedly "attacked" its speech.

Disney's legal strategy under CEO Josh D'Amaro differs from his predecessor's approach.

Disney under Josh D'Amaro is pushing back strongly against Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission.

Disney-owned ABC sued the FCC on Tuesday morning, alleging that the government agency is violating the First Amendment and trying to influence editorial content it deems unfriendly to the president.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr initiated a review of ABC's broadcast licenses in late April, shortly after Trump said that ABC should fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel for a joke about Melania Trump .

This move was a "blatant retaliation," ABC alleged in its legal filing.

The company wants a judge to grant a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction, which would be emergency actions that would pause the FCC's review.

The FCC had said it was reviewing ABC's broadcast licenses as part of an investigation into Disney's DEI practices.

The FCC said the broadcast network had "possible violations" against FCC rules prohibiting "unlawful discrimination." An early license renewal review was "essential" to make sure ABC was acting in the public interest, it said in April.

ABC's legal complaint said that the FCC "has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts." ABC's filing included a screenshot of a Truth Social post from Trump in late December that said: "If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J.

Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn't their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!" Disney's broadcast network said the Trump administration had repeatedly "attacked" its speech, both its journalists' reporting and its hosts' viewpoints.

"Over time, those attacks have escalated into express demands that ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses because of its speech," ABC's filing said.