15 Republican AGs Urge The Supreme Court To Make Affordable Broadband For Poor People Illegal
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The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called theUniversal Service Fund. The program was historically a bipartisan thing, until the extremist Trump administration came to town.
Driven by a fake right wing consumer group called Consumers' Research," theTrumplican-stackedFifth Circuit court of appeals recently took the radical step ofruling the entire program unconstitutional. The ruling, which ignored past Fifth Circuit and Supreme Court precedent, effectively declared the USF an unconstitutional, illegal tax, something seven court dissenters said was a preposterous leap.
Now the Supreme Courthas stated they'll hear the case, which will ultimately determine whether federal efforts to expand broadband access to poor, rural neglected communities is effectively illegal or not.
Not too surprisingly, 15 MAGA loyal Attorneys General, apparently with nothing better to do, have thrown their support behind the effort to effectively make helping poor people afford broadband illegal:
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