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🗓️ 26 March 2025
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0:31.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
0:36.9 | The U.S. Supreme Court hears two big cases, one on how much power |
0:41.4 | Congress may constitutionally delegate to the administrative state, and another on whether racial |
0:47.4 | gerrymandering is prohibited or may be required. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street |
0:53.7 | Journal. We're joined today by my colleague |
0:56.2 | Alicia Finley. The Supreme Court has had some low-profile cases lately, as is more often than not |
1:02.4 | the case, actually, since the justices hear only about 70 or 80 disputes a year. But this |
1:08.1 | relative quiet period ends this week with two big cases that could have |
1:12.4 | significant and lasting consequences for the law and the U.S. political system. Let's start |
1:18.2 | with the one that is being heard today. That is Federal Communications Commission versus |
1:23.0 | consumers' research. And the basic facts are these. In 1996, Congress passed a law asking the FCC |
1:30.7 | to levy money from phone carriers to subsidize universal service. There are some vague principles |
1:38.0 | in this law, like affordable rates, equitable contributions by the telecom providers. |
1:49.6 | But the rest is up to the bureaucracy, and the FCC then handed this power essentially off to a nonprofit company set up for that purpose, the Universal Service Administrative |
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