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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. intervened on Thursday to halt a federal appellate order requiring regulators to rule on discounted broadcast rates for political party committees. By insulating administrative inaction from judicial review weeks before the midterm elections, the high court weaponizes procedural exhaustion to preserve a multimillion-dollar windfall for party apparatuses. The decision exposes how regulatory pocket vetoes can rewrite federal statute while locking the courthouse doors against affected candidates.