The American business lobby has spent decades neutering the expert agencies that oversee industry, an effort that relies on Republican presidents making lifetime appointments of Federalist Society judges who believe that the agencies should do effectively nothing. This far-reaching takeover of the judiciary puts severe limits on the FCC’s ability to regulate ISPs. In 2024, a court struck down an order passed by Biden’s FCC. As I write this, Trump’s FCC is taking a wrecking ball to the few FCC policies that protect the public from predatory, monopolistic conduct.
