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A Clean-Up Act
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Over the next year, we will learn how the tenures of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter abidingly altered the operations of their respective agencies. Love the Neo-Brandeisian approach to antitrust or hate it, the outgoing administration rejected the norms that restrained antitrust law—and potential abuses of it—for the past half-century. The greatest question for the future of antitrust enforcement in the United States as the Trump administration comes into power is whether the new FTC and DOJ leadership will reestablish previous restraints or embrace the freedom that the Biden enforcers championed to push antitrust law beyond its conventional limits.