preemption

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Sinclair Broadcast Group is ending its preemption of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

Over the six days between the show’s preemption and its return, celebrities and influencers posted instructions on how to cancel subscriptions to Disney’s streaming services.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2025

When I first started seriously considering preemption in 2021, I wrote that “it now poses one of the most serious threats to anything but the most moderate of criminal legal system reforms.”

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024

Ultimately, reformers instinctively turn to the courts to address preemption.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024

Preemption rights on such a scale to private corporations are unequal and hostile to the policy and principles which sanction preemption laws.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)