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Supreme Court takes up constitutionality of federal telecom subsidy program 
The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear the government’s appeal of a decision invalidating a federal subsidy program that provides affordable telecommunications services to rural and low-income consumers.  The Justice Department petitioned the high court to take up the case after a lower panel ruled unconstitutional the funding mechanism for the program, called the Universal Service Fund (USF), which spends about $9 billion per year.  The case enables the Supreme Court to address the scope of the nondelegation doctrine, which bars Congress from delegating its lawmaking powers to the executive branch.   The court in two recent opinions sidestepped the constitutional doctri

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