CBS lawyers wrote that Trump's lawsuit is "an affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact." Screenshot: YouTube Paramount continues—against, honestly, all expectations, and the precedent set by many of its capitulation-happy colleagues—to push back against Donald Trump’s ridiculous $20 billion 60 Minutes lawsuit against it.

Paramount on Thursday asked a federal judge in Texas to dismiss the $20-billion lawsuit. The media company separately has agreed to have a mediator look at the case.

Paramount Global And CBS‘ legal team issued a broadside against Donald Trump‘s $20 billion lawsuit over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris, as the network has characterized the litigation as an “affront to the First Amendment.

"This lawsuit is an affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact," writes Thomas Riney, a lawyer for CBS, in the filing.

Paramount and CBS filed motions Thursday to throw out President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” interview last year, calling the suit an “affront to the First Amendment.” Trump first sued the network a few days before the November election,

The network's opposition to the suit sets them apart from other news organizations in Trump's second term. Disney-owned ABC News settled a $15 million suit late last year after Trump’s election win, apologizing for host George Stephanopoulos’ on-air claim that Trump had been found “liable for rape.”

CBS is seeking the dismissal of Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview last year with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump had claimed “voter interference” by the television newsmagazine in the way it edited and broadcast Harris' interview.