An op-ed calling financial-industry resistance to financing oil and gas production an antitrust violation reflects a troubling trend of using antitrust for political ends.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Biden Must Bring an End to the Bush Era
It was W who gave federal thugs the authority to terrorize Portland. Undoing Trumpism will require Biden and the Democrats to repeal Bush’s signature legislation.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Mysterious Case of Jay Clayton
The chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission is the other player in the U.S. attorney scandal.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Revolt of the Judges
The Trump administration has ordered immigration court judges to reject more applicants and speed up trials—and it wants to bust the judges’ union.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Making the World Safe for Fraudsters
The SEC’s most important enforcement tool to fight securities fraud is at stake in a case before the Supreme Court.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Five Ways William Barr Is Turning America Into a Dictatorship
Trump’s attorney general has corrupted the Justice Department and willfully abetted the president’s lawlessness.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Behind the Coronavirus Threat, a Middleman Destroying Prescription Drug Markets
Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) have driven many of the generic drug manufacturers out of business, and pushed those remaining to locate factories in China, ground zero for the epidemic.
Posted inPolitics
Preventing the Next Trump
The post-Trump paradox: We need a strong president to use the office for the public good—but not an abusive president.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Utah Statement: A Bulwark Against Private Power
Legal scholars have penned a statement of beliefs about how to best disrupt corporate concentration.
Posted inPolitics
William Barr and the Corruption of the Justice Department
The attorney general is using the full resources of his office in pursuit of preposterous conspiracy theories.
