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Respected Washington litigator Abbe David Lowell this week joined the team representing the New York advocacy group, which has vowed to sue Paramount should it settle with Trump.

Last year, the department paid out nearly $1 million to settle with a man who said that, over the course of a 17-hour interrogation, officers coerced him into confessing to a murder that never took place.

When asked how he would approach a potential uprising within CBS News should the company settle with Trump, Cheeks said, “I’m not going to answer that question.”

However, the network's parent company, Paramount, has been looking to settle with the president, as it hopes to stay in his good graces.

A persuasive factor in Disney’s decision to settle with Trump, according to the Times’ reporting in December, was their lawyers’ concern that the case would land in the Supreme Court, where Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas have signaled an openness to overturning Sullivan.