Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin appears at a press conference in 2013. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)A top federal lawmaker is warning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that its ongoing investigation into eight broadcast licenses held by the Walt Disney Company’s ABC could invite additional heat from Congress down the road. In a filing submitted to the FCC this week, Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland said the agency’s decision to require early renewal of the stations’ broadcast licenses “breaks from decades of practice” and raises serious constitutional concerns. “The Commission’s extraordinary decision to require early renewal of eight Disney-owned ABC broadcast licenses breaks from decades of practice and causes severe constitutional problems by at least appearing to use the Commission’s licensing authority to censor protected speech,” Raskin wrote. The order required Disney to renew its TV licenses earlier than anticipated — some were not scheduled to expire for several years — and turned a typical rubber-stamp procedure into a punitive process.