Picking up Cruz’s internet fight, Paxton sues Obama administration over domain name transfer
WASHINGTON — One Texas Republican lost a battle against the White House over a plan to transfer away control from the U.S. over internet domain names. Now, another Texas Republican is taking that fight to court.
Attorney General Ken Paxton — picking up the baton from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz — joined three other states late Wednesday in suing the Obama administration over the proposal. The states are first seeking a temporary block of the plan before it takes effect Oct. 1.
The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Texas, pits the states not just against the White House.
Tech leaders, internet access companies and others have invoked the protection of internet freedom to defend the plan, which would give up oversight of the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — ICANN — to private global stakeholders.
And Congress gave tacit approval to the handover by not including Cruz’s effort in a stopgap spending bill approved late Wednesday.
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And Paxton — who’s battling the Obama administration on several fronts these days — made the familiar case that the federal government had overreached its authority.
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Texas is trying to stop Obama from giving control of the Internet to international authorities. #txlege #tcot https://t.co/JzOusG00ha
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 29, 2016
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