Supreme Court has a chance to reform the FCC

The Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency reformers have exposed many spectacular cases of excess and abuse in the federal bureaucracies. Most are vestiges of the Biden administration’s DEI, green energy, and sex-and-gender enthusiasms, but jaded Washington insiders such as ourselves see them as the latest installment of a long-running series with a constant theme.

For decades, executive agencies have accumulated tremendous autonomous power with few checks or balances. Congress has promoted their growth, while judicial interventions have been intermittent and vacillating. The result has been empowering to both fevered ideologues and coolheaded rent seekers.