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The Fourth Circuit blocked the FCC's plan to extend the lowest unit charge (LUC) discount to political parties and joint fundraising committees, ruling that the law only entitles legally qualified candidates to the discount; the decision halts the policy before it could take effect and preserves candidate-specific pricing during the pre-election period.
A U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals panel lifted an injunction blocking Trump-era executive orders to end DEI programs in federal agencies and contractor work, ruling that the policies cannot be challenged in a broad, head-on way but may be attacked based on how they are applied to specific grant recipients, preserving room for further district-court challenges on enforcement.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing whether to overturn a Maryland district court order that bars immigration officials from arresting people during green-card interviews with their U.S. citizen spouses, a tactic used by the Trump administration in immigration enforcement; the case centers on the provisional waiver pathway for marriage-based immigrants seeking legal status.