The Colorado Sun: The antitrust lawsuit against the $6.1 billion dollar Nexstar Media Group merger with Tegna expanded Thursday, with the addition of five new states to the eight already seeking to block the megamerger.

Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Vermont signed on to the lawsuit turning the once all-Democratic fight into a bipartisan movement. Indiana, Kansas and Pennsylvania all have Republican attorneys general.

“These aren’t Republican or Democratic issues. They are American issues,” Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, said in  statement announcing his state had joined the case filed in federal court in Sacramento, California.

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