The FCC's lack of respect for due process, part II

[Commentary] Since Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler took over, we have seen one assault after another on American's procedural due process rights. In addition to the well-documented improprieties with the White House during the Open Internet debate, Chairman Wheeler, among other transgressions, has attempted to force nonprofits to reveal their donors in strict violation of Supreme Court precedent, hired advocates who had filed in significant FCC dockets as an interested party to come into the commission to supervise those very dockets, and attempted to hold a FCC "town hall" in which he had invited an outside party to participate and comment on a yet-to-be-released item during the "sunshine" period. Chairman Wheeler is now at it again, this time in the context of the FCC's attempt to impose stringent price regulation for "business data services" (BDS). Let's look at this shameful timeline.

[Spiwak is the president of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies.]