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Court Rejects FCC Request To Delay Net Neutrality Case (thehill.com)
A federal appeals court denied the FCC's request to postpone oral arguments in a court battle over the agency's decision to repeal its net neutrality rules. The FCC had asked for the hearing to be postponed since the commission's workforce has largely been furloughed due to the partial government shutdown. The hearing remains set for February 1. The Hill reports: After the FCC repealed the rules requiring internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally in December of 2017, a coalition of consumer groups and state attorneys general sued to reverse the move, arguing that the agency failed to justify it. The FCC asked the three-judge panel from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to delay oral arguments out of "an abundance of caution" due to its lapse of funding. Net neutrality groups opposed the motion, arguing that there is an urgent need to settle the legal questions surrounding the FCC's order.
The first problem is tribalism. It's okay when their side illegally or unconstitutionally does something... just not okay when those not on their side do the same.
The second problem is...
Congress cannot constitutionally grant any agency power to write regulations... they may only regulate with the laws congress wrote.
Agencies at best can only ask/recommend for Congress to make regulations for them to enforce.
Article 1 section 1
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
Many people have ignorantly and maliciously caused people to think that section 8 sub-section 18 allows congress to let agencies like the FCC to actually create regulation they can then enforce without Congress having to pass them and signed by the President.
It is pretty much the same as if the Police were allowed to create laws to enforce whenever they like. Just imagine how much value there would be in corporations to buy police departments... like they currently like to "buy" agencies like the FCC?