Pai Slams FCC After DC Circuit Stays Inmate Calling Rate Caps
“Something has gone seriously awry at the FCC,” Commissioner Ajit Pai said after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stayed the agency’s inmate calling rate caps for a fourth time. The D.C. Circuit granted Securus and others…
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the stay Wednesday (see 1611020060). “I am not aware of any other proceeding in which the courts have intervened this frequently to block agency action,” Pai said in a statement Thursday. “Three times I have urged my colleagues to adopt reasonable regulations that would substantially reduce interstate inmate calling rates and survive judicial scrutiny. Three times they have declined.” It’s part of a “broader trend” of rejecting bipartisan compromises in favor of “legally flawed decisions on party-line votes,” Pai said. “This isn’t how the FCC used to operate. I hope that the agency will someday return to working together to deliver actual, legally sustainable results for the American people.”