Next up is the FCC case. This is the one I believe I missed in my list of the opinions due today.
It is by Justice Kagan, and the vote is 6-3 again. Gorsuch dissents, joined by Thomas and Alito.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-354_0861.pdf
This was the challenge to the federal program that subsidized low-cost telephone and internet services in, for example, rural areas and for libraries and schools.
There is a a “universal service fund” to receive and disburse the money for subsidies, and the FCC created a private corporation to manage the fund’s operations.
Today the Supreme Court rejects a challenge to the universal-service scheme.
I’m assuming this is the “service fund” that pays for all those programs to sign people up for free phone service. You see those little tents in parking lots next to the “Pay-day loan” shops where they advertise “Free Cell Phones”. Yeah, we pay for that in our “service fund” donations.