New Yorker: "A Clear Violation of Obama's Promise"

[merrily]

245. I am sure the failure to reclassify before

attempting net neutrality, or during the same rulemaking process, or even after the FCC lost it's first lawsuit on this, was a good faith oversight. Just like going tiers instead of trying to reclassify now.

Reading the Court opinion was rough, but I had the definite sense that even the Court was impatient with the FCC.

among other things, the opinion starts

"For the second time in four years, we are confronted with a Federal Communications Commission effort to compel broadband providers to [use net neutrality].

At one point, the Court says something like "After all, even a federal agency is entitled to some pride."

And about six times, the Court cited an issue that the FCC attorneys had forfeited (on behalf of the American people, mind you) because they had not raised it in their brief. (One time I think for Verizon, too, to be fair).

Whodda thunk filling the FCC with lawyers who used to lobby for broadband providers would turn out that way? You'd think seeing it from both (?) sides of the fence would have resulted in briefs that were near perfection.