Gigi Sohn, a career tech regulatory advocate and distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law, has withdrawn from the confirmation process to be a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner. President Joe Biden nominated Sohn three times, starting in October 2021, but she never secured the Senate's approval.
Sohn confirmed her withdrawal in a statement decrying the 2–2 Republican–Democrat "deadlock" at the FCC. She attributed her stalled confirmation to "legions of cable and media industry lobbyists, their bought-and-paid-for surrogates, and dark money political groups." It would be more accurate to say that politics and policy differences played a role in dooming her bid to fill the fifth FCC chair.
