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Ed Markey: Well, again, I would leave it up to the same lawyers at the FCC that were just upheld at the Circuit Court to determine…

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
Well, again, I would leave it up to the same lawyers at the FCC that were just upheld at the Circuit Court to determine what is, in fact, constitutional or not, and so far their record has been very good in terms of drawing those lines right where they can be upheld.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey trusts FCC lawyers to determine constitutional issues based on their past performance.

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