[kstrauser]

It does, actually. FCC reigns supreme in telecom regulations when they regulate something. However, they claimed that federal net neutrality was out of scope of the FCC's regulatory power. Because of that, by their own words they lack standing to prevent the states from doing their own thing.

For instance, the FCC can't sue California over smog controls because clean air isn't under the FCC's jurisdiction. Well, the FCC has claimed, in court, that net neutrality is also not under their jurisdiction. Their claims under oath are contradictory: either they have the power to enforce net neutrality (in which case it should still be federal law) or they don't (in which case they don't have grounds to tell California that CA can't enforce it).