A Good Day on the Gridiron for tOSU Wednesday…
The football team had a big win… but “google-up” their band’s pre-game! Featuring
their “Floating Ohio” and “Double Script Ohio”… perfect timing and not one mis-spell!
There is a reason they are called “The Best Damn Band in the Land”….
(As much as I dislike tOSU football and most of their fans, I do respect their marching band.)
their “Floating Ohio” and “Double Script Ohio”… perfect timing and not one mis-spell!
There is a reason they are called “The Best Damn Band in the Land”….
(As much as I dislike tOSU football and most of their fans, I do respect their marching band.)
Immigration drives Iowa's 2024 population growth
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Iowa gained 23,074 people from 2023 to 2024, boosted primarily by growth in international migration to the state, according to new U.S. Census data.
Similar to neighboring Midwest states including Illinois and Nebraska, people from other countries moved to Iowa at higher rates than those who came from other places in the United States.
From July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, a net of 19,439 people migrated to Iowa from outside the United States — accounting for most of its growth in that period — while a net of 231 people departed Iowa to other states.
Iowa ranks as the country’s 32nd most populous state with a little over 3.2 million people as of July 1, 2024. It previously was ranked as the 31st in population, but gains in other states surpassed Iowa’s growth — with Nevada moving to 31st.
From July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, Iowa gained 15,594 people, compared with 4,207 the year prior and 7,472 the year before that.
International migration to the United States was the highest in decades between 2023 and 2024, with a net of 2.8 million people moving from other countries, according to U.S. Census data.
Iowa has experienced this trend over the past few years, with 16,114 people moving to Iowa from other countries in the year ending July 1, 2023, and 10,340 people arriving in the year ending July 1, 2022.
Erica Johnson, the founding executive director of the Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice, said employment opportunities, safety and family members who live in Iowa are the top reasons people are moving to the state from other countries.
“They're pulled to Iowa because we have an economy that needs them, that is hiring essentially for a workforce that depends on them. And because they have family here and because they have heard that Iowa is a comparatively safe and accessible place,” Johnson said.
According to 2021 data from the American Immigration Council, 6.3 percent of Iowa’s population is foreign-born, making up 7.1 percent of the state’s workforce.
Johnson noted the increase in international migrants coming to Iowa helps fill gaps created by people leaving the state.
“It's breathing new life into downtowns in lots of rural communities and supporting schools in some rural places that have been losing populations,” Johnson said.
The departure of young people and recent college graduates to other states — or brain drain, as it’s called — is not a new trend in Iowa. For the last few years, Iowa has seen one of the highest rates of brain drain in the country.
While people still left the state in the past year, Iowa saw a significantly lower departure rate compared with 2023, when a net 3,674 people moved away.
Iowa’s net population gain was calculated by looking at migration both internationally and domestically, as well as birth and death rates. Natural change from births and deaths accounted for a net growth of 3,829 people.
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Similar to neighboring Midwest states including Illinois and Nebraska, people from other countries moved to Iowa at higher rates than those who came from other places in the United States.
From July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, a net of 19,439 people migrated to Iowa from outside the United States — accounting for most of its growth in that period — while a net of 231 people departed Iowa to other states.
Iowa ranks as the country’s 32nd most populous state with a little over 3.2 million people as of July 1, 2024. It previously was ranked as the 31st in population, but gains in other states surpassed Iowa’s growth — with Nevada moving to 31st.
From July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, Iowa gained 15,594 people, compared with 4,207 the year prior and 7,472 the year before that.
International migration to the United States was the highest in decades between 2023 and 2024, with a net of 2.8 million people moving from other countries, according to U.S. Census data.
Iowa has experienced this trend over the past few years, with 16,114 people moving to Iowa from other countries in the year ending July 1, 2023, and 10,340 people arriving in the year ending July 1, 2022.
Erica Johnson, the founding executive director of the Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice, said employment opportunities, safety and family members who live in Iowa are the top reasons people are moving to the state from other countries.
“They're pulled to Iowa because we have an economy that needs them, that is hiring essentially for a workforce that depends on them. And because they have family here and because they have heard that Iowa is a comparatively safe and accessible place,” Johnson said.
According to 2021 data from the American Immigration Council, 6.3 percent of Iowa’s population is foreign-born, making up 7.1 percent of the state’s workforce.
Johnson noted the increase in international migrants coming to Iowa helps fill gaps created by people leaving the state.
“It's breathing new life into downtowns in lots of rural communities and supporting schools in some rural places that have been losing populations,” Johnson said.
The departure of young people and recent college graduates to other states — or brain drain, as it’s called — is not a new trend in Iowa. For the last few years, Iowa has seen one of the highest rates of brain drain in the country.
While people still left the state in the past year, Iowa saw a significantly lower departure rate compared with 2023, when a net 3,674 people moved away.
Iowa’s net population gain was calculated by looking at migration both internationally and domestically, as well as birth and death rates. Natural change from births and deaths accounted for a net growth of 3,829 people.
Immigration drives Iowa's population growth in 2024
Similar to neighboring Midwest states including Illinois and Nebraska, people from other countries moved to Iowa at higher rates than those who came from other places in the United States.
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President Joe Biden is giving the 2nd highest civilian award to the leaders of the Jan. 6 congressional committee
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President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot who Donald Trump has said should be jailed for their roles in the inquiry.
Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 people in a ceremony Thursday at the White House, including Americans who fought for marriage equality, a pioneer in treating wounded soldiers, and two of the president’s longtime friends, former Sens. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
“President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,” the White House said in a statement. “The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”
Biden last year honored people who were involved in defending the Capitol from a mob of angry Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, or who helped safeguard the will of American voters during the 2020 presidential election, when Trump tried and failed to overturn the results.
Cheney, a former Wyoming congresswoman, and Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, led the House committee that investigated the insurrection. The committee’s final report asserted that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the election he lost to Biden and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol. Thompson wrote that Trump “lit that fire.”
Cheney, who lost her seat in the GOP primary in August, later said she would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race and campaigned with the Democratic nominee, raising Trump’s ire. Biden has been considering whether to offer preemptive pardons to Cheney and others Trump has targeted.
Trump, who won the 2024 election and will take office Jan. 20, still refuses to back away from his lies about the 2020 presidential race and has said he would pardon the rioters once he is back in the White House.
During an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the president-elect said that “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” claiming without evidence they “deleted and destroyed” testimony they collected.
“Honestly, they should go to jail,” he said.
Cheney and Thompson were “an embarrassment to this country” for their conduct on the committee, Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung asserted.
Biden is also giving the award to attorney Mary Bonauto, who fought to legalize same-sex marriage, and Evan Wolfson, a leader of the marriage equality movement.
Other honorees include Frank Butler, who set new standards for using tourniquets on war injuries; Diane Carlson Evans, an Army nurse during the Vietnam War who founded the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation; and Eleanor Smeal, an activist who led women’s rights protests in the 1970s and fought for equal pay.
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He’s also giving the award to photographer Bobby Sager, academics Thomas Vallely and Paula Wallace, and Frances Visco, the president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.
Other former lawmakers being honored include former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J.; former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, the first woman to represent Kansas; and former Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., who championed gun safety measures after her son and husband were shot to death.
Biden will honor four people posthumously: Joseph Galloway, a former war correspondent who wrote about the first major battle in Vietnam in the book “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young”; civil rights advocate and attorney Louis Lorenzo Redding; former Delaware judge Collins Seitz; and Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, who was held with other Japanese Americans during World War II and challenged the detention.
The Presidential Citizens Medal was created by President Richard Nixon in 1969 and is the country’s second highest civilian honor after the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes people who “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”
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Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 people in a ceremony Thursday at the White House, including Americans who fought for marriage equality, a pioneer in treating wounded soldiers, and two of the president’s longtime friends, former Sens. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
“President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,” the White House said in a statement. “The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”
Biden last year honored people who were involved in defending the Capitol from a mob of angry Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, or who helped safeguard the will of American voters during the 2020 presidential election, when Trump tried and failed to overturn the results.
Cheney, a former Wyoming congresswoman, and Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, led the House committee that investigated the insurrection. The committee’s final report asserted that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the election he lost to Biden and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol. Thompson wrote that Trump “lit that fire.”
Cheney, who lost her seat in the GOP primary in August, later said she would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race and campaigned with the Democratic nominee, raising Trump’s ire. Biden has been considering whether to offer preemptive pardons to Cheney and others Trump has targeted.
Trump, who won the 2024 election and will take office Jan. 20, still refuses to back away from his lies about the 2020 presidential race and has said he would pardon the rioters once he is back in the White House.
During an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the president-elect said that “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” claiming without evidence they “deleted and destroyed” testimony they collected.
“Honestly, they should go to jail,” he said.
Cheney and Thompson were “an embarrassment to this country” for their conduct on the committee, Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung asserted.
Biden is also giving the award to attorney Mary Bonauto, who fought to legalize same-sex marriage, and Evan Wolfson, a leader of the marriage equality movement.
Other honorees include Frank Butler, who set new standards for using tourniquets on war injuries; Diane Carlson Evans, an Army nurse during the Vietnam War who founded the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation; and Eleanor Smeal, an activist who led women’s rights protests in the 1970s and fought for equal pay.
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He’s also giving the award to photographer Bobby Sager, academics Thomas Vallely and Paula Wallace, and Frances Visco, the president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.
Other former lawmakers being honored include former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J.; former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, the first woman to represent Kansas; and former Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., who championed gun safety measures after her son and husband were shot to death.
Biden will honor four people posthumously: Joseph Galloway, a former war correspondent who wrote about the first major battle in Vietnam in the book “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young”; civil rights advocate and attorney Louis Lorenzo Redding; former Delaware judge Collins Seitz; and Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, who was held with other Japanese Americans during World War II and challenged the detention.
The Presidential Citizens Medal was created by President Richard Nixon in 1969 and is the country’s second highest civilian honor after the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes people who “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”
President Joe Biden is giving the 2nd highest civilian award to the leaders of the Jan. 6 congressional committee
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Biden blocks Japan's Nippon Steel from acquiring U.S. Steel
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President Joe Biden said Friday that he has decided to block a $15 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by the Japanese company Nippon Steel, capping off a yearlong business saga that drifted into election-year politics.
The decision comes after a national security review by a Treasury Department committee failed to reach a consensus on the deal and referred the final decision to the president in December. NBC News had reported in September that Biden was preparing to block the takeover.
The president, who leaves office in little more than two weeks, faced a challenging political calculus over the fate of the iconic Pittsburgh-based firm: Allowing a foreign entity with far greater resources to take it over could put the business on stabler financial footing. But keeping U.S. Steel in American hands risked the company’s survival under intense foreign competition.
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The decision comes after a national security review by a Treasury Department committee failed to reach a consensus on the deal and referred the final decision to the president in December. NBC News had reported in September that Biden was preparing to block the takeover.
The president, who leaves office in little more than two weeks, faced a challenging political calculus over the fate of the iconic Pittsburgh-based firm: Allowing a foreign entity with far greater resources to take it over could put the business on stabler financial footing. But keeping U.S. Steel in American hands risked the company’s survival under intense foreign competition.
Biden blocks Japan's Nippon Steel from acquiring U.S. Steel
The iconic American company had sought to sell itself amid intense global competition.
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Nearly 200 absentee ballots went uncounted in Wisconsin and officials want to know why
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Nearly 200 absentee ballots somehow went uncounted in Wisconsin’s liberal capital after the Nov. 5 election, prompting state election officials to launch an investigation Thursday into whether the city clerk broke the law.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously to investigate whether Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl failed to comply with state law or abused her discretion. Commission members said they were concerned the clerk’s office didn’t inform them of the problem until late December, almost a month and a half after the election. Commission Chair Ann Jacobs certified Wisconsin’s election results on Nov. 29.
Witzel-Behl’s office said in a statement that the number of uncounted votes didn’t affect the outcome of any race or referendum on the ballots. But Jacobs said the oversight was “so egregious” that the commission must determine what happened and how it can be prevented as spring elections approach.
“We are the final canvassers,” Jacobs said. “We are the final arbiters of votes in the state of Wisconsin and we need to know why those ballots weren’t included anywhere.”
Witzel-Behl said in an email to The Associated Press that her office looks forward to working with the commission to determine what happened and how to prevent the same issues in future elections.
It’s another misstep for Witzel-Behl, who announced in September that her office mistakenly sent out up to 2,000 duplicate absentee ballots. She blamed it on a data processing error.
According to election commission documents, the commission learned of the uncounted ballots on Dec. 18, when Witzel-Behl’s staff told the commission that they recorded more absentee ballots as received than ballots counted in three city wards.
The commission asked Witzel-Behl to provide a detailed statement, which she did two days later. The memo stated that on Nov. 12, the clerk’s office discovered 67 unprocessed ballots for Ward 65 and one unprocessed ballot for Ward 68 in a courier bag found in a vote tabulating machine.
The memo also stated that her office was reconciling ballots for Ward 56 on Dec. 3 when 125 unprocessed ballots were discovered in a sealed courier bag. Reconciliation is a post-election process in which officials account for every ballot created. That work begins immediately after an election. Clerks have 45 days to complete it.
The memo does not offer any explanation, saying only that the clerk’s office planned “to debrief these incidents and implement better processes.”
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The clerk’s office issued a statement on Dec. 26 saying it had informed the elections commission and would send an apology letter to each affected voter.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway released her own statement the same day saying the clerk’s office didn’t tell her staff about the problem until Dec. 20. She said her office plans to review the city’s election procedures. The mayor issued a new statement Thursday saying she appreciates the election commission’s investigation and the city will cooperate with the probe.
Wisconsin is a perennial battleground state in presidential elections. Republican Donald Trump won the state this past November on his way to reclaiming the White House, beating Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris by about 29,000 votes.
Madison and surrounding Dane County are well-known liberal strongholds. Harris won 75% of the vote in the county in November.
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The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously to investigate whether Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl failed to comply with state law or abused her discretion. Commission members said they were concerned the clerk’s office didn’t inform them of the problem until late December, almost a month and a half after the election. Commission Chair Ann Jacobs certified Wisconsin’s election results on Nov. 29.
Witzel-Behl’s office said in a statement that the number of uncounted votes didn’t affect the outcome of any race or referendum on the ballots. But Jacobs said the oversight was “so egregious” that the commission must determine what happened and how it can be prevented as spring elections approach.
“We are the final canvassers,” Jacobs said. “We are the final arbiters of votes in the state of Wisconsin and we need to know why those ballots weren’t included anywhere.”
Witzel-Behl said in an email to The Associated Press that her office looks forward to working with the commission to determine what happened and how to prevent the same issues in future elections.
It’s another misstep for Witzel-Behl, who announced in September that her office mistakenly sent out up to 2,000 duplicate absentee ballots. She blamed it on a data processing error.
According to election commission documents, the commission learned of the uncounted ballots on Dec. 18, when Witzel-Behl’s staff told the commission that they recorded more absentee ballots as received than ballots counted in three city wards.
The commission asked Witzel-Behl to provide a detailed statement, which she did two days later. The memo stated that on Nov. 12, the clerk’s office discovered 67 unprocessed ballots for Ward 65 and one unprocessed ballot for Ward 68 in a courier bag found in a vote tabulating machine.
The memo also stated that her office was reconciling ballots for Ward 56 on Dec. 3 when 125 unprocessed ballots were discovered in a sealed courier bag. Reconciliation is a post-election process in which officials account for every ballot created. That work begins immediately after an election. Clerks have 45 days to complete it.
The memo does not offer any explanation, saying only that the clerk’s office planned “to debrief these incidents and implement better processes.”
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The clerk’s office issued a statement on Dec. 26 saying it had informed the elections commission and would send an apology letter to each affected voter.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway released her own statement the same day saying the clerk’s office didn’t tell her staff about the problem until Dec. 20. She said her office plans to review the city’s election procedures. The mayor issued a new statement Thursday saying she appreciates the election commission’s investigation and the city will cooperate with the probe.
Wisconsin is a perennial battleground state in presidential elections. Republican Donald Trump won the state this past November on his way to reclaiming the White House, beating Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris by about 29,000 votes.
Madison and surrounding Dane County are well-known liberal strongholds. Harris won 75% of the vote in the county in November.
Nearly 200 absentee ballots went uncounted in Wisconsin and officials want to know why
Nearly 200 absentee ballots somehow went uncounted in Wisconsin’s liberal capital after the Nov. 5 election, prompting state election officials to launch an investigation.
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woodest thou? (bad girl edition)
Inmate: KIERSTYN LEANN MEINCKE
Middle:LEANN
Last:MEINCKE
Birth:11/25/2002
Current Age:20
Height:5' 03"
Weight:105
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Inmate Profile:
First:KIERSTYNMiddle:LEANN
Last:MEINCKE
Birth:11/25/2002
Current Age:20
Height:5' 03"
Weight:105
Charge Information:
| Case # | Description | Grade | Offense Date | Conviction Date | Sentence Date | Sentence | Sent Type |
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| DUS | 2023-09-06 | 0000-00-00 | 0000-00-00 | ||||
| NO INSURANCE | 2023-09-06 | 0000-00-00 | 0000-00-00 | ||||
| NO REGISTRATION | 2023-09-06 | 0000-00-00 | 0000-00-00 | ||||
| POSSESSION OF CONTROL SUBSTANCE | MISDEMEANOR | 2023-09-06 | 0000-00-00 | 0000-00-00 |
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Iowa MBB's Rebounding Woes Part I: Offensive Rebounding
- By Andrew Houk
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The first in my two part deep dive into Iowa MBB's rebounding problems. This one focuses on offensive rebounding. There will be one on defensive rebounding in the coming days. If you have any questions about the article or want to discuss the rebounding problems further, this thread is a good place for it.
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Iowa MBB's Rebounding Woes, Part I: Offensive Rebounding
Taking a closer look at Iowa's struggles on the offensive glass -- and how the Hawkeyes might fix those issues.
way to set a.....
high bar.
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Rep. Burchett Approves Of Speaker Johnson: 'He Doesn't Cheat On His Wife'
That's speaks a lot about the immorality of the MAGA GOP
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In blow to Democrats, federal appeals court strikes down net neutrality
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit struck down the FCC’s “net neutrality” rules governing internet service providers Thursday in an early policy win for Republicans seeking to reverse Biden-era industry regulation.
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Democrats at the Federal Communications Commission had considered the reinstatement of net neutrality a major accomplishment under the Biden administration. The reversal is a glimpse of the years ahead, during which President-elect Donald Trump’s team has vowed to broadly undo his predecessor’s regulation of private-sector companies.
The net neutrality issue revolves around how heavily federal regulators should control the companies that build and operate the internet. Democrats favor heavier oversight along the lines of how traditional telephone networks are regulated, while Republicans have argued for a lighter touch. Net neutrality was adopted by the FCC under the Obama administration, reversed under Trump, then reinstated under President Joe Biden.
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“I think that net neutrality is going to have a long respite,” said Marc Martin, partner at Perkins Coie and a former FCC official, adding that he sees the prospect of the Supreme Court overruling the 6th Circuit as slim. “It would have to take future bad acts that get a lot of attention to maybe bring a different Congress to act and give the FCC authority. Short of that, I think it’s over.”
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The 6th Circuit said in its decision Thursday that internet service providers were not just dumb pipes, as the FCC has contended, and for that reason, internet service cannot be regulated as a mere utility service like power, water and traditional telephone lines.
“The FCC’s reading is inconsistent with the plain language of the Communications Act [of 1934],” the court in Cincinnati said, referring to the law outlining the FCC’s authority.
A conservative-led FCC under the second Trump administration was widely expected to move to overturn net neutrality if court challenges failed. On Thursday, the FCC declined to say whether it would appeal the court decision, with Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel calling instead for Congress to take action.
“Consumers across the country have told us again and again that they want an internet that is fast, open and fair,” she said in a statement. “With this decision it is clear that Congress now needs to heed their call, take up the charge for net neutrality, and put open internet principles in federal law.”
Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick for FCC chairman, praised the court Thursday for striking down what he called “President Biden’s Internet power grab” and promised more deregulatory moves for his tenure as head of the agency.
Get concise answers to your questions. Try Ask The Post AI.Democrats at the Federal Communications Commission had considered the reinstatement of net neutrality a major accomplishment under the Biden administration. The reversal is a glimpse of the years ahead, during which President-elect Donald Trump’s team has vowed to broadly undo his predecessor’s regulation of private-sector companies.
The net neutrality issue revolves around how heavily federal regulators should control the companies that build and operate the internet. Democrats favor heavier oversight along the lines of how traditional telephone networks are regulated, while Republicans have argued for a lighter touch. Net neutrality was adopted by the FCC under the Obama administration, reversed under Trump, then reinstated under President Joe Biden.
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“I think that net neutrality is going to have a long respite,” said Marc Martin, partner at Perkins Coie and a former FCC official, adding that he sees the prospect of the Supreme Court overruling the 6th Circuit as slim. “It would have to take future bad acts that get a lot of attention to maybe bring a different Congress to act and give the FCC authority. Short of that, I think it’s over.”
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The 6th Circuit said in its decision Thursday that internet service providers were not just dumb pipes, as the FCC has contended, and for that reason, internet service cannot be regulated as a mere utility service like power, water and traditional telephone lines.
“The FCC’s reading is inconsistent with the plain language of the Communications Act [of 1934],” the court in Cincinnati said, referring to the law outlining the FCC’s authority.
A conservative-led FCC under the second Trump administration was widely expected to move to overturn net neutrality if court challenges failed. On Thursday, the FCC declined to say whether it would appeal the court decision, with Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel calling instead for Congress to take action.
“Consumers across the country have told us again and again that they want an internet that is fast, open and fair,” she said in a statement. “With this decision it is clear that Congress now needs to heed their call, take up the charge for net neutrality, and put open internet principles in federal law.”
Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick for FCC chairman, praised the court Thursday for striking down what he called “President Biden’s Internet power grab” and promised more deregulatory moves for his tenure as head of the agency.
