States Lose Fight to Stop Obama’s Unilateral ‘Give-Away’ of Internet

Monday, October 3, 2016
By Paul Martin

by LANA SHADWICK
BreitBart.com
3 Oct 2016

Attorneys general for the states of Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Nevada, have been denied their request to stop President Obama’s unilateral “give-away” of the Internet.

A federal judge in Galveston, Texas, U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks, Jr., denied the plaintiff State’s request for a preliminary injunction Friday evening.

As reported by Breitbart Texas, attorneys general for the four states filed a lawsuit in Texas on Wednesday evening to stop the Obama Administration from giving control of the Internet to an international organization that lists several authoritarian regimes as advisers on its board. The complaint asked for declaratory and injunctive relief.

ICANN has always been overseen by the U.S. Commerce Department but the federal government’s contract with ICANN was set to expire on Friday, September 30. The attorneys general of these states urged that the “proposed actions are unlawful and should be temporarily restrained and enjoined.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was joined by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, and Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt. The lawsuit was filed in Texas in U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division. Named in the lawsuit as defendants were: the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA); the United States of America; the United States Department of Commerce; the Secretary of Commerce; and the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information.

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