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Hostile Takeover: Kushner Targets Warner Bros Amid Democracy Crisis

12/10/2025

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Paramount Skydance and Jared Kushner are pursuing a hostile takeover of Warner Brothers Discovery, with support from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the state of American democracy.
He highlights multiple Constitutional crises.
He argues media mergers matter beyond business.
He says citizens, civil society, and local governments may defend against an increasingly authoritarian federal system.

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Paramount Skydance and Jared Kushner are pursuing a hostile takeover of Warner Brothers Discovery, with support from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the state of American democracy.
He highlights multiple Constitutional crises.
He argues media mergers matter beyond business.
He says citizens, civil society, and local governments may defend against an increasingly authoritarian federal system.