When the FCC issued its "Restoring Internet Freedom" order, it voted along party lines to roll back net neutrality because those pesky regulations would slow spending and harm consumers. Now the attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, representing 165 million people, are suing to block the FCC's action.  

The rollback -- led by a former telecom lawyer and current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai -- takes away the 2015 Title II classification of Internet service as a "common carrier" service. Without that regulatory safeguard in place, ISPs and telecom carriers are free to arbitrarily block and slow down content they don't like, so long as they document and disclose what they're doing. (See FCC Nixes Net Neutrality Rules on June 11 and Court Puts FTC Back in Net Neutrality Mix.)

The attorneys general of New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia disagree with Pai's take on Internet regulation.