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The Stephen Colbert/Donald Trump saga is far from over.

The Hill is reporting that the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) received “a number” of complaints about Colbert’s following shocking and homophobic description of President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s relationship: “In fact, the only thing [Trump’s] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster.”

In an interview with Talk Radio 1210 WPHT in Philadelphia today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said:

“I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get complaints, and we’ve gotten a number of them, we are going to take the facts that we find and we are going to apply the law as it’s been set out by the Supreme Court and other courts and we’ll take the appropriate action.”

The federal law Pai refers stems from the famed 1964 Jacobellis v. Ohio Supreme Court case, in which Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart failed to define pornography but instead claimed “I Know it when I see it.” The FCC’s website states the following in regards to obscene, indecent and profane broadcasts:

Obscene content does not have protection by the First Amendment. For content to be ruled obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court: It must appeal to an average person’s prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a “patently offensive” way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

Pai told WPHT today that “Traditionally, the agency has to decide, if it does find a violation, what the appropriate remedy should be. A fine, of some sort, is typically what we do.”

After the #FireColbert hashtag spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday trending on Twitter, Colbert began his Late Show monologue on Wednesday night by saying that “he didn’t regret” taking on Trump, but admitted that “So while I would do it again, I would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be.” (The words “Sorry” or “I apologize” were not uttered by Colbert.)