{"id":844141,"date":"2026-06-04T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/844141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:07:19","slug":"supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-on-telecom-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/844141\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on telecom regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court<\/a> sided with the Trump administration Thursday in a case about the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws<\/a> on telecommunications companies. <\/p>\n

The 8-1 decision upheld one of the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s key tools, though the companies also won a concession from the Republican administration that could shift the regulatory landscape. <\/p>\n

The appeal from telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&T<\/a> challenged a combined $100 million in penalties imposed after the agency determined that the companies had failed to safeguard customer location data. <\/p>\n

The companies argued that the FCC\u2019s process was unconstitutional because it gave them little opportunity to tell their side of the story in front of a jury. <\/p>\n

The administration defended the fines are an essential regulatory tool. But the government also said companies did not have to pay the penalties right away, a regulatory shift in the company\u2019s favor. <\/p>\n

The Supreme Court agreed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe orders at issue did not settle the carriers\u2019 legal obligations because, stated simply, they did not create an obligation to pay,\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. <\/p>\n

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, saying he would have gone further on limiting the agency\u2019s power. <\/p>\n

Other agencies use similar enforcement methods, so such a sweeping victory for AT&T and Verizon could have had widespread effects, advocates said.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s conservative majority has gone the other way and limited the power of federal agencies before. That includes overturning a decades-old decision<\/a> that had given regulators an advantage in court and stripping another agency of a major tool in fighting<\/a> securities fraud. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in a case about the power…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":844142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,18882,356,84,69,18320,57,328,192955,15128,80,369,158,67,370,132,68,93],"class_list":["post-844141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-courts","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-general-news","tag-government-regulations","tag-industry-regulation","tag-john-roberts","tag-politics","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116692703572211075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}