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.
Next is Mahmoud v. Taylor.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-297_4f14.pdf
This case is about whether parents have a right to opt their children out of instruction using LGBTQ+ themed storybooks.
The vote is 6-3. Sotomayor dissents, joined by Kagan and Jackson.