Ted Cruz compares threats to ABC by FCC chair to those of mob boss

Texas senator says Brendan Carr's threats to revoke licenses amid Jimmy Kimmel suspension right out of Goodfellas'

Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, compared Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr's threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC stations over late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's commentary to mafioso" tactics similar to those in Goodfellas, the 1990 mobster movie.

Look, Jimmy Kimmel has been canned. He has been suspended indefinitely. I think that it a fantastic thing," Cruz said at the start of the latest episode of his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. There were, however first amendment implications" of the FCC's role, the senator, a Harvard Law School graduate who clerked for US supreme court chief justice William Rehnquist, added.