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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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$*(! FCC Can Fine For Fleeting Expletives

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 28 2009, 10:23 AM ET Comment

Hot off the presses... a 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision reversing a lower court's order that smacked the FCC declaring that "fleeting" uses of the F-word and the S-word could be indecent. The lower court said that FCC was being capricious and arbitrary. Writing for the court, Justice Scalia said the law allows the FCC to fine broadcasters for those "actionably indecent" words without being capricious and arbitrary. 

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