Democrats press Brett Kavanaugh over net neutrality at hearing
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) grilled Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh about his views on net neutrality, a week after Democrats argued that he would “cripple” internet protections for “decades to come.”
The senator, who has been vocal in her support for net neutrality protections, asked Kavanaugh about a dissent he wrote in 2017 as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a case that upheld the 2015 Open Internet Order, which enshrined net neutrality protections.
In the dissent, the nominee argued that the rules “forcibly reduces the relative voices of some Internet service and content providers and enhances the relative voices of other Internet content providers.”
The now-nominee essentially argued that the First Amendment rights of internet servi...
