A former counselor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman under President Obama told Hill.TV’s “Rising” on Monday that a court case challenging the FCC’s decision under President Trump to repeal its net neutrality rules could result in the reinstatement of the former rules. 

“If this prevails in the court, yes, the 2015 rules should come back,” Gigi Sohn, a Benton Senior Fellow and a public advocate, told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti referring to a case that is challenging the decision to end the Obama-era rules. 

“The court can do many different things to resolve this. They could send it back to the FCC, and say look, you didn’t give it an adequate enough rationale for what you did, go back and try again,” she continued. 

“Or it could say, look, you completely screwed up, we’re just going to vacate what you did, eliminate what you did, and then the 2015 rules would come back,” she said. 

More at The Hill.