This week the Federal Communications Commission came out in support of the Department of Justice’s attempt to reverse the AT&T/Time Warner merger. The FCC filed a court briefing supporting the DOJ’s attempt to overturn the approval of the AT&T/Time Warner merger this week.

“While the Commission takes no position on the relevance of any document in this case, it is concerned that two of the rationales supplied by the district court for discounting the probative value of submissions made to the FCC could reflect a misunderstanding of Commission procedures,” the FCC wrote.

The FCC is hoping to be able to use the AT&T and DIRECTV comments when NBC and Comcast merged as leverage to enforce similar limitations that Comcast had to agree to before they could merge with NBC Universal.