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Lina Khan, in her appearance on CNBC, said “that’s an interesting question” so many times that interviewer Kara Swisher had to ask, “what’s the interesting answer?”
🧐🚫 Is the
#FTC
's antitrust lawsuit against
#Amazon
just the latest example of Chairwoman Lina Khan's Big Tech crusade? Critics point out that Khan has failed to act on clear antitrust violations in other sectors.
Read
@Robert_Bork_Jr
's latest:
🚨 New from
@robert_bork_jr
- "Will Khan Break Amazon – or Will Her Lawsuit Break Her?"
If successful, it would not only transform Amazon's business model, but also upend the entire consumer welfare standard.
Read more:
Khan and the FTC target amazon, but ignore the ESG cartel’s restraint of trade that harms consumers and investors alike.
The latest from
@Robert_Bork_Jr
at
@dcexaminer
Read more:
The facts are not on the side of the
@FTC
in their case against
@amazon
. Studies show that Amazon leads the retail sector in lower prices for years. How will
@linakhanFTC
square the claim that Amazon’s standards for sellers is costing consumers dearly?
🛡️👀 Is the
#FTC
's lawsuit against Amazon another example of overzealous
#antitrust
enforcement? Critics claim that Chairwoman Lina Khan's history of targeting Big Tech companies has led to misguided efforts and missed opportunities. Find out why:
The Google Antitrust Case’s Toxic Mix of Progressivism and Protectionism: The
@TheJusticeDept
's move against
@Google
rests on some familiarly flawed logic. The latest from
@Robert_Bork_Jr
at
@NRO
. Read more:
"Why Bother to Confirm Two Republican FTC Commissioners?"
@robert_bork_jr
explains the need for the Senate to confirm Andrew Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak to the FTC Board. Read here:
🚨 The battle between Google,
#antitrust
ideology, and protectionism transcends this current investigation. Discover both the new and old elements shaping antitrust thinking in
@robert_bork_jr
's latest piece:
💬 'Competitive discipline is far more effective than any antitrust decree.' -
@robert_bork_jr
Don't miss this thought-provoking article on the changing landscape of Google and antitrust cases.
#Antitrust
#Competition
🔎 New article alert! Dive into
@robert_bork_jr
comparison of investigations into Google as the Justice Department wraps up its antitrust case. Read now ⬇️
Is
#ESG
ready to RIP?
@AswathDamodaran
presents a brilliant dissection of the many contradictions and pitfalls of ESG in The Financial Times. But is the movement dead or just going underground?
Is one antitrust agency a good idea? Will
@SpeakerJohnson
revive his One Agency Act and take antitrust enforcement away from
@linakhanFTC
and solely to
@JusticeATR
? Would that even be a good idea?
@Robert_Bork_Jr
weighs the pros and cons. Read more:
"Questions for Lina Khan Tomorrow"
Tomorrow, FTC Chair Lina Khan will appear before the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention.
Here are some questions she should be asked according to
@Robert_Bork_Jr
:
Upcoming antitrust trials will stick to decades-old consumer welfare standard, making cases vs
@Google
&
@amazon
challenging. Plaintiffs must show clear consumer harm.
#antitrust
#consumerwelfare
Judge Robert H. Bork passed away 10 years ago today. George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School recently announced an endowed chair honoring him. Learn more and contribute if you wish.
💥 Explosive allegations against
#Amazon
! The
#FTC
claims that the e-commerce giant is driving up prices and stifling competition. But wait, independent research shows that Amazon consistently offers lower prices than its rivals.
#Antitrust
Learn more:
What are critics saying about
@linakhanFTC
's antitrust lawsuit against
@amazon
? The reviews are in... if this were a movie on Rotten Tomatoes, Khan’s signature antitrust case would be a big green splat.
Read more:
ICYMI [1/7]: Lina Khan’s scheduling of vote to rescind a 2015 policy statement upholding the Consumer Welfare Standard is as about as surprising as a wolf suddenly devouring a lamb. Who knew they did that?
#antitrust
Wow. He actually said that! Tim Wu went to Brussels to argue for a permanent regulatory structure to enforce progressive antitrust without new statutes because Congress “is the least democratic branch of the government.”
OPINION: Our President, Robert H. Bork, Jr., writes in the
@NRO
on how republicans should be wary of the massive expansion of government that increasingly popular anti-monopoly sentiments would entail.
#antitrust
Former FTC Commissioner
@ProfWrightGMU
nails it: “One wonders how the Republicans going along w. all this to ‘get Big Tech’ are feeling right now; I’m guessing ‘played.’ If not, they’ll catch up soon enough.” Hoping he’s right that courts will stand firm.
Consumer welfare standard is the cornerstone of objective antitrust enforcement. Destroying this cornerstone will lead to government-by-whiplash in a critical economic area.
@joldmcginn
@LawLiberty
Join us Monday, Sept. 27, from 4pm to 5 pm EDT as our President, Robert H. Bork, Jr., talks w. Sen.
@ChuckGrassley
, Ranking Member of Senate Judiciary Committee, about the radically changing landscape of antitrust enforcement in the United States. Sign up:
[1/11]: Two strong pieces in today’s Wall Street Journal (
@WSJ
), one on the history of antitrust, the other on the pitfalls of Lina Khan and the “neo-Brandesians.”
The redoubtable
@AldenAbbott1
, an advisory board member of the Antitrust Education Project, has a great piece on the myriad proposals to regulate digital markets, both home and abroad. Read more via
@TOTMblog
:
@Google
&
@amazon
can likely beat antitrust charges under existing consumer welfare laws - critics say it's too narrow a standard in digital age.
#antitrust
#BigTech
In an Office of Personnel Management survey, FTC employees gave Lina Khan a low mark for lacking “high standards of honesty and integrity.” This is what the Federal Trade Commission looks like under Lina Khan.
#antitrust
Bork:“The recent report from the
@LawEconCenter
clearly illustrates, through an abundance of high-profile examples, that the doom and gloom predictions that seem to go hand-in-hand with reports of potential mergers have been overblown time and time again."
@SenMikeLee
turns to absurdity of “judge, jury, prosecutor and enforcer” of administrative law courts, with decisions reviewed by the Commission, with Commission lawyers. “In what universe does this comply with Fifth Amendment” due process?
I was proud last week to join with so many leading voices to object to the continuing "votes" by departed
@FTC
Commissioner
@chopracfpb
prior to his move to
@CFPB
.
In the wake of the resignation of FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson, NetChoice issued a succinct compilation of the dysfunction, intrigue and disingenuous mismanagement of the agency under Chair Lina Khan.
BREAKING -- Statement from Robert H. Bork, Jr., president, AEP:
“Republicans who buy into the dangerous antitrust theories of Sen. Amy Klobuchar will find themselves responsible for turning over terabytes of U.S. customer data to China...
Matt Vespa of Townhall has a common-sense take on the absolute lunacy of the federal regulation of speech being touted by Sen. Amy Klobuchar – and echoed by many conservatives!
ICYMI: Our President, Robert H. Bork, Jr., discussed on
@FoxBusiness
@larry_kudlow
how Joe Biden is neglecting the consumer welfare and how Biden's new competition policy is a power grab that will hurt our economic growth and investment. Watch:
#antitrust
TWO DAYS AWAY!
@geomasonlrev
's 25th Annual Antitrust Symposium will be held 21-25 February. Practitioners, scholars, and gov officials w/diverse viewpoints will discuss competition, enforcement, & economic issues of antitrust.
@GAI_GMU
@GeorgeMasonU
Attorney Scott Barshay with Paul Weiss spoke truth to power in a Tulane conference on Thursday: “Jonathan Kanter at DOJ and Lina Khan at the FTC – they’re just anti-deal and in a sense they’re anti-law.”
Eugene Scalia in WSJ has a brilliant dissection of all that is wrong with
@linakhanFTC
power grab in preparing a “categorical ban” on non-compete agreements in employment.
Sen.
@RandPaul
calls out the left's
#antitrust
push: "I may be angry with YouTube for its policies that silence debate, but I would not allow my anger to support the use of antitrust to destroy the system that made YouTube possible."
“The blood-boiling excesses of woke corporations can and should be curbed. But there’s no need to destroy the American free-market system in the bargain.” Our President, Robert H. Bork, Jr., writes in
@NRO
.
#antitrust
.
@CarlSzabo
of
@NetChoice
mentions The Antitrust Paradox during their event, Defining the Digital Market. The consumer welfare standard is a critical guide during these times of digital transformation.
@BorkFoundation
Watch:
#antitrust
Commentator
@CGasparino
lays bare the antitrust revolution occurring in the Biden White House in a recent piece in
@nypost
. Read the piece and our analysis here:
The Zombie votes at Chair Khan’s Federal Trade Commission is soon to be a new AMC series – the Voting Dead. How is it that a former FTC commissioner, now at a different agency, can somehow leave behind a stockpile of proxy votes?
The push to punish companies merely for their size will unleash detrimental consequences on consumers everywhere.
@andashleysays
and
@AlliedAntitrust
aim to educate lawmakers on the dangers of hipster antitrust.
@monthly
The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) dissects the leading questions put forward in the FTC’s request for information how to update antitrust.
@LawEconCenter
For one thing, the
@FTC
has no such authority. Congress intended FTC to address unfair competition by case-by-case enforcement, not to devise its own economy-wide rules.
Timothy J. Muris, former FTC Chairman under Bush ‘43, agrees with former Clinton Treasury Secretary that the Biden Administration’s approach to antitrust is “presumptively problematic.”
.
@SenMikeLee
: “Judge Robert Bork himself explicitly described the consumer welfare standard as being broader than an inquiry into price, and it is one that certainly includes an inquiry into quality, innovation, and consumer choice.”
@BorkFoundation
Great piece by
@andykessler
in
@WSJ
on antitrust. Bottom line: If there is real consumer harm, it will be lawyers and courts that point this out, not politicians.
The American Choice and Innovation Online Act will also expose Americans’ private data to thousands of foreign companies. Once your data is in the wild, expect it to wind up in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
.
@Robert_Bork_Jr
yesterday at University of Richmond School of Law: “I am confident that if Judge Bork were here, he would also see the need for antitrust action in Environmental, Social and Governance directives to businesses.”
.
@linakhanFTC
's power grab at
@FTC
has been a masterwork of subterfuge to give the agency unprecedented new powers to harass business: arbitrary subpoenas, punishment for success, no statute of limitations, & a complete disregard for market realities.
@wsj
Conservatives should be embarrassed that a liberal Democrat like
@LHSummers
has to point out to people like
@HawleyMO
and
@tedcruz
that progressive antitrust will drive inflation, hurt the economy and institutionalize corporate wokeness. 🧵
Diane Bartz of Reuters looks at the miserable record of failure of DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter in winning antitrust cases. Bartz examines the underlying reasons Kanter vows to not “back down” despite striking out time and again.
Lina Khan’s nomination to serve on
@FTC
advanced today from the Senate Commerce committee to the Senate floor.
@firstadopter
of
@business
offers a good overview of the likely impact of Khan’s likely confirmation on a number of companies.
#antitrust
Kudos to Bloomberg for breaking the story of FTC Chair Lina Khan’s attempt to hide her agency ethics ruling that Khan’s long history of diatribes against Meta “would raise a question in the mind of a reasonable person about Chair Khan’s impartiality.”
Have you signed up yet? You do not want to miss this important event hosted by
@NetChoice
on the Consumer Welfare Standard, the lodestar of antitrust analysis for several decades. But why is it currently under attack? Tune in this Monday. Sign up:
I am proud to join
@andashleysays
of the Committee for Justice and a number of other leading legal and policy voices to put several questions to Andrew Katsaros, Inspector General of
@FTC
.
Our President, Robert H. Bork, Jr., provides a history lesson on antitrust and how today’s focus is off track and thus will result in harming consumers. A must read.
@WSJ
@WSJopinion
Kudos to Bloomberg Law which used a FOIA to reveal that 71 senior attorneys at the top of the government pay scale have left the Federal Trade Commission between 2021 and 2022.
It is not a stretch to say that Chair Khan and the
#BidenAdministration
have an express desire to transform the
@FTC
into the federal Department of Economy Management.
[1/5]: Kudos to the leaders of Illumina for moving forward to complete the deal with Grail, despite the monolithic opposition of the FTC and European regulators on antitrust grounds.
Sen. Klobuchar's radical
#antitrust
reform “Innovation and Choice Online Act” is poised for a vote, and Sen.
@tedcruz
is brushing aside conservative values to support the woke left's dream bill if it means biting
#BigTech
.
AEP President
@Robert_Bork_Jr
explains in his new op-ed:
Honored to be quoted today in Sen.
@RandPaul
’s strong op-ed in Fox News on why conservatives should not let their anger at
#BigTech
tempt them into supporting
#antitrust
bills that would destroy the free market system.
The media remains in the thrall of
@linakhanFTC
, even as the legacy the FTC chair is trying to establish fails to get traction. What’s missing in
@CNN
's new profile of Khan?
@Robert_Bork_Jr
explains…
Are modern antitrust efforts truly bipartisan? Doesn't look likely - a recent survey shows that 83% of conservative Republicans responded 'total agree' to the following statement:
"Chair Khan, are you disappointed that federal courts have adhered to the consumer welfare standard and failed to adopt your more expansive vision of antitrust law?"
@robert_bork_jr
shares questions that should be asked of Lina Khan this morning:
Wu’s appearance highlights the danger that Lina Khan’s FTC is using the unelected bureaucrats of Brussels to empower the unelected bureaucrats in Washington to coerce change in American antitrust enforcement.
ICYMI:
@FTC
today challenged the digital graphics company
@nvidia
proposed acquisition of Arm Holdings, which designs and licenses blueprints for chips in most of the world’s smartphones.