{"id":9594,"date":"2020-02-26T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=824c8bfb76cd9996406425427c4bbcc3"},"modified":"2020-02-26T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:00:06","slug":"clarence-thomas-regrets-ruling-that-ajit-pai-used-to-kill-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9594","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas regrets ruling that Ajit Pai used to kill net neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1656250\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Uh-Oh, you voted for some of the courts' power to be vacated into administrative agencies experiencing regulatory capture, and now you regret it?<\/div><div>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/getty-supreme-court-justices-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Six Supreme Court justices pose for an official group photo.\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/getty-supreme-court-justices.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enlarge<\/a> <span>\/<\/span> US Supreme Court justices sit for their official group photo on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. Seated from left, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts. Standing from left, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. (credit: <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/collections\/wapost\">Getty Images | The Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>  <\/figure><div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants a do-over on his 2005 decision in a case that had a major impact on the power of federal agencies and regulation of the broadband industry.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/04-277.ZS.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>National Cable &amp; Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services<\/em><\/a>, better known as <em>Brand X<\/em>, Thomas wrote the 6-3 majority opinion that upheld a Federal Communications Commission decision to classify cable broadband as an information service. But in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/19pdf\/19-402_o75p.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissent on a new case<\/a>, released Monday, Thomas wrote that he got <em>Brand X<\/em> wrong. Thomas regrets that <em>Brand X<\/em> gave federal agencies extensive power to interpret US law, a power generally reserved for judges.<\/p>\n<p>\"Regrettably, <em>Brand X<\/em> has taken this Court to the precipice of administrative absolutism,\" Thomas wrote. \"Under its rule of deference, agencies are free to invent new (purported) interpretations of statutes and then require courts to reject their own prior interpretations.\"<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1656250#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 26 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1656250&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p><div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=93fse35REiY:W-Q9kvwMMrY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=93fse35REiY:W-Q9kvwMMrY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=93fse35REiY:W-Q9kvwMMrY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=93fse35REiY:W-Q9kvwMMrY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=93fse35REiY:W-Q9kvwMMrY:qj6IDK7rITs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=93fse35REiY:W-Q9kvwMMrY:yIl2AUoC8zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ US Supreme Court justices sit for their official group photo on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}