Attorneys for CBS are asking a federal judge in Texas to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump accusing the network of engaging in “naked forum-shopping” as part of an effort to have the case heard by a judge that may be more amenable to the president’s claims

The now-$20 billion suit stems from the network’s October 2024, “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. It claims the aired footage was deceptively “doctored” to “tip the scales” in favor of Democrats, which amounted to “unlawful election interference.”

The long-shot complaint was filed in November 2024 in the Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division, where U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — a Trump appointee known to be particularly receptive to conservative lawsuits — is the lone federal judge. The problem, according attorneys for CBS and its parent company, Paramount Global, is that the court has no jurisdiction because none of the allegations in the complaint have any connection to the Lone Star State.

“Plaintiff Donald J. Trump, a citizen of Florida, brings this lawsuit against three media companies, all of which are based in New York, over an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that took place in Washington, D.C., was edited in New York, and was later broadcast across the United States from New York,” the opening line of the network’s 33-page motion states. “President Trump knows well that he cannot simply select his preferred jurisdiction when that jurisdiction bears little or no relationship to the events giving rise to his claim.”

Likely anticipating the defendants’ would challenge the suit on jurisdictional grounds, Trump last month added as a co-plaintiff to the action: Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, a Republican from Amarillo who previously served as Trump’s White House doctor.

The amended complaint states that Jackson is “a consumer of broadcast and digital news media content,” including content from CBS, and “he has thus been injured.”