The Bush administration is seeking to challenge News Corporation’s Fox Network before the Supreme Court after it lost a landmark indecency case against the media company in June.

Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, confirmed on Wednesday that the Office of the Solicitor General would seek a review of the lower court decision, which found that the US media regulator had failed to provide a “reasoned explanation” for a “180-degree turn” on its treatment of “fleeting expletives” on broadcast television.