Supreme Court Turns Aside Conservative Challenge to $8 Billion Phone and Internet Subsidy Program

Gus Hurwitz June 27, 2025

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz was quoted in this USA Today article about $8 billion phone and internet subsidy program. Read the full story here.

Gus Hurwitz, senior fellow at the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, said he’s not surprised the challenge failed.

He called it an aggressive attempt to get the court to stop Congress from delegating power to the executive branch. But the justices have been addressing that concern in other ways, Hurwitz said, including through its “major questions doctrine” ruling that agencies should have less power to act unless there’s clear congressional approval.