Gigi Sohn, a career tech regulatory advocate and distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law, has withdrawn from the confirmation process to be a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner. President Joe Biden nominated Sohn three times, starting in October 2021, but she never secured the Senate’s approval. Sohn confirmed her withdrawal in a statement decrying the 2–2 […]
President Joe Biden’s third attempt to install Gigi Sohn at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) raises the probability that the agency will attempt to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules. But even if Sohn is confirmed and the FCC’s new Democratic majority tries to do so, the policy could meet its end in court. Today’s Supreme […]
President Joe Biden has renominated Gigi Sohn to fill the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) now-vacant fifth seat. This is the third time Sohn has been nominated. Should she gain the Senate’s approval, she will break the agency’s current 2–2 Democrat-Republican logjam and allow the agency to re-enact Obama-era net neutrality regulations, which are economically nonsensical […]