Republicans hope court will halt Internet transfer Friday night

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Washington Examiner:

Republicans are holding out hope that a Texas court will issue a last-minute injunction to halt the Internet's transition to a multinational group, scheduled to happen at the end of Friday.

 

"We're probably going to see this play into the midnight hour," Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn told the Washington Examiner. "My understanding is that they're trying to push this forward to today get a ruling, and I would hope it would be a ruling in favor of the taxpayers and the United States of America in retaining our control."

 

The possibility of an injunction stems from a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Southern District of Texas by state attorneys general in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada. Officials are asking the court to prevent the Department of Commerce from handing a core function of the Internet to the international Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and for the first time ever, removing the Web from American legal jurisdiction.