Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court To Wipe Out Decision Upholding Net Neutrality (hollywoodreporter.com)

Repealing net neutrality wasn't enough for the Trump administration. Today, the administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a 2016 appeal court ruling that had upheld Obama era net neutrality rules that barred ISPs from blocking, throttling, or prioritizing content. Reuters reports: The request was made even though the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to toss out the 2015 rules late last year, rendering the fight over their legality moot. In a filing to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration said the question for the court was "whether the now-superseded 2015 order was invalid because it exceeded the FCC's statutory authority, was arbitrary and capricious, was promulgated without adequate public notice, or violated the First Amendment."

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Re:So?

[PopeRatzo]

I hope you can tell the difference. Bypassing congress bad. Working within Constitutional Executive authority good.

Barack Obama signed over 275 executive orders. Nine of them got overturned. So, it looks like he was good at Constitutional Executive Authority.

I have to ask though, do you believe a president has the "Constitutional Executive authority" to declare a $100 billion tax cut?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

Re:So?

[PopeRatzo]

20 months vs 2 years ? Any reason you felt the need to change units there ? 20 months vs 24 makes it much easier to see the difference.

You may be right. I should not have assumed that Trump supporters could figure out that 20 months is less than 2 years.

And the reason I changed units is because Trump hasn't been president for two years yet, but Obama was president for eight. Trump's time in office is often spoken of in terms of months and Obama's is only spoken of in years. I suppose I could have said, "1 year and eight months vs 2 years", but again, I'd probably lose the Trump supporters.