The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step into a lower court dispute over television advertising rates paid by political candidates and joint fundraising committees weeks before the midterm elections.
The application asked the justices to set aside a 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which directed the Federal Communications Commission to resolve by Friday a dispute over the agency’s policy to extend the low advertising rates used by political candidates to party coordinated advertising and joint fundraising committees.
