Trump Tempers Anti-Regulation Push to Back FCC at Supreme Court

The latest effort to get the US Supreme Court to restrain government regulation has an unlikely opponent: President Donald Trump.

Even as Trump works to decimate disfavored federal agencies with a barrage of job and funding cuts, the Justice Department on Wednesday will be at the high court defending an $8 billion telecom subsidy program. The case pits the administration against some of the president’s usual allies, who are trying to build on recent Supreme Court decisions slashing the power of federal agencies.

For the administration, the case is about more than its nominal subject, the Federal Communications Commission’s ...