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

But successful preemption efforts may be a lot harder to achieve than I and others imagined.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024

"Er—may I venture to ask if your husband holds squatter's rights, or has the homestead and preemption?"

From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger