Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is ready to file another lawsuit against the federal government, he told a group of Amherst Republicans on Wednesday.
Cuccinelli said he expects a federal agency to “issue a regulation to regulate the Internet,” despite a court ruling last year that the agency lacks regulatory authority over the Net.
“We have never seen an administration that has such disdain for the rule of law,” Cuccinelli said.
“Friday we will be involved in another fracas in courts around the country, and I expect that one we are going to win, and I think they know it. But we’ll see,” the attorney general said.
Cuccinelli apparently was referring to a Federal Communications Commission plan to regulate broadband lines under rules that were designed for telephones.
The so-called “net neutrality” rules would require Internet providers such as Comcast and AT&T to treat all traffic equally, barring them from slowing or blocking access to websites.
The regulations could affect how much video and other high-bandwidth services are available.
Cuccinelli has federal lawsuits pending over the federal health care bill and the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases.
He also is demanding University of Virginia documents related to former climate-change researcher Michael Mann’s work. Cuccinelli has said he wants to know whether Mann used manipulated data to obtain government grants.
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