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Supreme Court Ruling Could Impact the Closing Weeks of High-Stakes Midterm Advertising Battle

The Supreme Court sided with the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, allowing the agency to avoid a Democrat-led challenge to its policy of extending discounted TV and radio advertising rates to political parties.

“The Commission may exercise its discretion to set its own procedures and schedule for resolving such applications,” the majority said Wednesday in an unsigned opinion. Two of the Democrat appointees on the court dissented, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Federal law already required TV and radio stations using the public airwaves to provide lower rates to “any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office in........

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