Supreme Court, 7-2, blocks order forcing FCC to rule within 48 hours on party ad rates

Party committees keep the low TV ad rates reserved for candidates through the final weeks of the campaign.

Democratic candidates asked the FCC to stop party committees from buying TV ads at the low rates reserved for candidates, and the Fourth Circuit ordered the agency to rule within 48 hours. The Supreme Court halted that deadline 7-2, its second ruling for Republicans in the dispute, per Reuters and The Hill. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson dissented from the unsigned order.

The ruling:

Vote: 7-2; Sotomayor and Jackson dissented (Washington Examiner, The Hill)
The unsigned order said courts may not "meddle in 'the workings of a coordinate branch of the Government' in this manner"