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 wrote about preemption in 2021, I counted eight states with pending legislation; only two of those bills ended up becoming law.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024

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

Hamed insisted on preemption of the gall, while yet the quaking reptile certainly had the best title to it; but Hamed stood below and some distance off, for he was nervous.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)