Section 706(a) of the Communications Act of 1934 grants the president sweeping authority in times of "war" and "national emergency" — as defined by the president.

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Wednesday to the Federal Communications Commission's defense of the mechanism it uses to fund a multi-billion dollar ...

The Federal Communications Commission is requesting public feedback after it announced plans to repeal longstanding ...

but anti-regulatory groups have hoped the court’s conservative supermajority will revitalize it by agreeing that Congress handed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) too much power in ...