CBS is once again blasting President Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against the network’s “60 Minutes” Kamala Harris interview as “meritless” and an attempt to “evade bedrock First Amendment principles” in a new filing with the Texas federal court.

The president has alleged that the Harris interview caused him “mental anguish” after being deceptively edited to make her look good. He also claims that its “false advertising and tampering” withheld viewers’ attention from him and his social media platform Truth Social, resulting in a decrease in value for Trump Media and Technology Group and his other media holdings and violating the the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

While Trump’s team have argued that the interview and its promotion on “Face the Nation” are commercial speech, CBS fired back that they provided the court with “nothing that would support the conclusion that the Face the Nation and 60 Minutes Broadcasts—involving an interview of a presidential candidate about issues of utmost public concern—are anything but fully protected editorial speech, and they cite not a single case holding that news broadcasts (or promotions for such broadcasts) are commercial speech.”

“Indeed, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected that argument,” CBS added. “The First Amendment applies fully to the news reporting at issue and bars Plaintiffs’ claims.”

CBS also argues that Trump lacks standing because he cannot rely on “intangible harms” that are “common to the public at large” and that accepting it would “amount to greenlighting thousands of consumer claims brought by individuals who merely disagree with a news organizations’ editorial choices.”

“President Trump has not plausibly alleged that he personally suffered ‘an injury to a commercial interest in reputation or sales’,” CBS added.

More to come…