GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
摘要
美国共和党竞选委员会在电视政治广告定价诉讼败诉后，正寻求最高法院介入，要求强制广播电视台向政党和联合筹款委员会提供最低广告费率。现行美国法律仅规定在选举前60天内，电视台须向个别候选人提供“最低单位收费”。特朗普政府通过联邦通信委员会下令将这一优惠扩展至政党组织，但四名民主党候选人上诉后，联邦第四巡回上诉法院裁定该命令与法律明文相悖，不予执行。
Republican campaign committees want the Supreme Court to mandate lower prices for election commercials on broadcast TV stations. If the court agrees, broadcasters would be forced to offer their lowest ad prices to political parties and joint fundraising committees.
For a more thorough description of the legal issues in the dispute, see this article that Ars published yesterday. In short, US law requires broadcasters to offer individual candidates the “lowest unit charge,” or LUC, during the 60 days before an election. The law helps level the playing field somewhat by letting candidates make their cases to voters who watch broadcast TV without needing to raise exorbitant sums of money.
The Trump administration, acting through the Federal Communications Commission, ordered broadcast TV stations to also give these discounts to political parties and joint fundraising committees, which face fewer limits on how much money they can raise and spend. Four Democratic candidates appealed, and a judges’ panel at the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that the FCC order cannot be enforced because it contradicts the plain language of US law.
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