Responding to a complaint brought by DirecTV, a California federal judge late Friday temporarily halted the merger of TV station affiliate chains Nexstar and Tegna and ordered a hearing for next week for the parties to answer more questions about the Trump-loyal media cartels’ plans – already approved by corrupt incel FCC chair Brendan Carr – to consolidate control over vast swathes of American television media markets, especially after Nexstar unilaterally preempted Jimmy Kimmel’s show on its ABC affiliates late last year because the host had dared to mock the convicted felon president’s bizarre and far from sympathetic reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser tweeted “BREAKING – The judge in our case challenging the Nexstar-Tegna merger (9News and Fox31) just issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the companies from merging. On April 7th, the judge will consider the request to bar the merger while we make our case to stop it permanently,” which was a little fib by omission as it was DirecTV’s parallel case, not his and other Blue States’, that landed the hold. The same judge, Troy Nunley, is overseeing both, so Weiser wasn’t necessarily lying when he said “the judge in our case.”

Shitty Nexstar-owned political news site The Hill has not printed a story about their overlord’s legal setback yet. Instead their most recent article as of 11:25 AM Saturday is headlined “FCC’s Brendan Carr: Trump is ‘winning’ against ‘fake news media’.” Cope harder, you fucking lightweight wieners.