Lina Khan – the celebrity scholar recasting antitrust law into a tool to enable government to control capitalism – gave Republican senators a chance to ask her hard questions in her April nomination hearing for the Federal Trade Commission. Will Republicans continue to be so solicitous when voting on her nomination within a few days?
In her hearing, Khan may have expected to have to run a gauntlet. Instead, most Republicans threw her a parade. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was congratulatory, virtually high-fiving Khan for sharing his desire to use antitrust law to pummel Big Tech companies.
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