Federal Communication Commission Chairman Brandon Car celebrated the loss of the FCC court after a decision to eliminate the Baden era’s diversification needs yesterday, against which the car voted while the Democrats were in charge.
“An appellate court has just rejected the Biden FCC’s 2024 decision, forcing broadcasters to post races and gender score cards.” Is written. “As I said in my disagreement at the time, the FCC’s decision to 2024 was an illegal attempt to pressure the business to discriminate on the basis of race and gender.”
The FCC mandate was challenged by a group of national religious broadcasters, Christian TV and radio broadcasters and the American Family Association in court. He filed a lawsuit for the 5th Circuit in a US court appeal, where a panel of three judges total Governance Unanimously against the FCC.
The FCC order began by the court that broadcasters need to enter the annual form for employees in the job category with generation, race and gender data. The 5th Circuit Court said, “The Federal Communication Commission issued an order that mostly television and radio broadcasters need to compile employment demographics data and disclose data to the FCC, which the agency will post on the broadcaster on the basis of its website.”
FCC’s February 2024 Order The need to collect data was revived that was previously implemented from 1970 to 2001. FCC Suspend After the judicial decision in 2001, collecting data in which commission can use data, though collecting data was not found unconstitutional itself.
The court says the FCC’s public interest authority is not enough
The then chair, led by Woman Jessica Roshanel, said last year that collecting data will help the public interest “help report and analyze employment trends in the broadcast sector and compare trends in other sectors administered by the commission.”
The 5th circuit judges found that the FCC’s public interest authority is not enough to justify this principle.
The decision states that “the FCC has a huge authority to work in the public interest.” “However, this authority should be linked to a separate grant of authority in its rules. The FCC has not shown that broadcasters need to enter employment demographics data or analyze industry employment trends, so it does not return to the public interest.