Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, appeared to mock Disney on Tuesday after the company filed a lawsuit alleging the commission violated First Amendment rights when it issued an early broadcast license review for all eight ABC-owned stations.

“Disney seems to be a little nervous about what the record’s showing,” Carr told Reuters.

Carr, a close ally of President Donald Trump, ordered the unprecedented early review in April after months of feuding between the Disney-owned ABC Network and the administration over various programming that expressed critical viewpoints of the president. But Carr has asserted the early review was spurred by Disney’s diversity and inclusion practices.

When asked by Reuters whether he’s decided to begin the process of revoking the network’s licenses, Carr said he hadn’t.

“We haven’t made a decision about when we’re making a decision,” he told the outlet.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses the Trump administration of attempting to censor ABC because it dislikes what it airs.

“The Commission has demanded a review of the Stations’ licenses extraordinarily early,” the lawsuit reads. “That timing underscores the Commission’s true purpose: coercing and retaliating against a network that refuses to bow to the Administration’s demands.”

Since returning to the White House, Trump has frequently called for the network to have its licenses revoked and also demanded late-night host Jimmy Kimmel be fired over political remarks.

The lawsuit specifically cites threatening comments Carr made in response to Kimmel’s remarks in September about the late right-wing influencer, Charlie Kirk.

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said at the time. “These companies can find ways ... to take action ... on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

The FCC also launched an investigation into popular ABC talk show “The View” for allegedly violating equal opportunity laws by hosting Texas’ Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.

But lawyers for ABC argue that the investigation came just weeks after the commission reversed decades of precedent that exempted late-night and daytime talk shows from the equal opportunity requirements.

“Acting through the Federal Communications Commission, the Administration has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts,” the lawsuit reads.

“Again and again, the Administration has attacked ABC’s speech — the stories its journalists report and the viewpoints its network programs air,” it continued. “Over time, those attacks have escalated into express demands that ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses because of its speech.”

The FCC would face a significant burden if it were to try to revoke ABC’s licenses, as the commission would have to prove the network abused rules and engaged in misconduct.

Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the commission, said in a statement that she is hopeful Disney’s lawsuit will put an end to the FCC’s “disregard for the Constitution.”

“For months, the FCC has waged a campaign of censorship and control against Disney’s ABC stations, using the threat of broadcast license revocations to punish a company for speech this administration doesn’t like,” the statement read.

“I have long called on companies to push back against this kind of government intimidation, and I’m glad Disney has shown courage and stepped up,” she continued. “This should be a welcome sign for every broadcaster who has felt the weight of this overreaching government pressure in silence.”

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