| reply to kamm
Ummm...
Congress makes the laws and so, gives the FCC whatever authority it needs to administer those laws. The constitution has nothing to do with it.
Only if the supreme court holds a law as unconstitutional can the FCC's authority be stripped away.
You really dont understand how the government and legal system woeks, do you?
The FCC's predicessor was CREATED by congress in the Communications act of 1934 for regulating the airwaves. However, the communications act has been amended many times by congress as needed. The communications act (as amended) is what gives the FCC it's basic authority to regulate the things it doesCongress can make the FCC do whatever it wants, since congress created it by enabling the statutes that created it and gives it it's authority.
Who is it, do you think that CREATES government departments? |
