Lawyers representing an ABC station have accused the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of punishing the network for political purposes in a strongly worded attack on the Trump-controlled commission’s investigation into the top-rated talkshow, The View. In a legal motion filed on Thursday, KTRK-TV, a Houston-based local television station owned by ABC, pushed back strongly against the FCC investigation, accusing the purportedly independent agency of taking actions that “threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to The View and more broadly”. Back in February, Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, confirmed to the Guardian that the agency had opened an enforcement action into ABC over The View, looking at whether it had violated equal time rules by featuring a US Senate candidate from Texas, James Talarico, without affording the same platform to his campaign rivals.…