It’s official: On Sunday night (April 2), the White House sent out a note that it had informed the Senate it has withdrawn the nomination of Gigi Sohn to fill the vacant chair on the Federal Communications Commission. The regulator is currently at a 2-2 political tie over two years since President Joe Biden took office, which usually means a Democratic majority.
Last month, Sohn had asked the White House to withdraw the nomination after battling for most of two years against a concerted effort to block her from joining the agency, saying that battle and what she saw as ad hominem attacks, had taken too heavy a toll.
