In well-placed leaks to the media, Lina Khan is signaling that the depth and breadth of her long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Amazon will exceed anything the ambitious, ideology-driven Federal Trade Commission Chair has yet attempted.
Many have attributed this to sheer animus. Khan famously made her reputation as the wannabe intellectual leader of progressive antitrust with her breakthrough attack on the retailer and e-commerce giant in a widely celebrated (and perhaps over-celebrated) law journal note while she was still a student at Yale Law School.
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