Justice Gorsuch rightly rebuked the FCC chair for pursuing regulatory pressure against Jimmy Kimmel, revealing how even a Republican-led agency can drift into content-based intimidation that chills speech. This matters because it shows the administrative state’s reflexive urge to police media narratives, undermining the very deregulation and restraint conservatives expect from executive appointments. Treating broadcasters as targets rather than private actors only hands progressives fresh evidence that government power is the problem, not the solution. The Constitution assigns executive authority to the President alone under Article II, rejecting the fiction of independent agencies that float free of political accountability. Original meaning demands narrow statutory bounds on commissions like the FCC, not creative enforcement aimed at disfavored voices. Individual liberty suffers when regulators substitute their preferences for the First Amendment’s clear prohibition on such interference. Conservatives win by shrinking these agencies, not by borrowing their tools.