This is the brief everyone wishes they got to write: the ACLU's amicus submission siding with comedian John Oliver.

The host of HBO 's “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver, HBO and Time Warner were sued for defamation by Robert Murray, the CEO of the largest privately owned coal mining company in the United States.

Murray objected to a segment about the coal industry that aired on June 18, 2017, and has asked a federal judge in West Virginia to issue a temporary restraining order.