Before the ink was dry on California’s newly-signed net neutrality law, the Trump administration unveiled a lawsuit seeking to block the measure, which reinstates the Obama-era protections. The action, as your host and Jeremy White report, sets up a “high-stakes legal bout between the Trump administration and the nation’s most populous state.”

Gigi Sohn, a Georgetown University fellow and counselor to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, said the DOJ “will have a tough time convincing the court that California has no right to protect its citizens from anticompetitive and anti-consumer actions of broadband providers when the Federal government has abdicated its responsibility to do so.”

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