On the Matter of Antitrust, There's a Crucial MAGA Split

In July, Roger Alford, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, and William Rinner, the Antitrust Department’s head of merger enforcement were fired. The reason for the firings was “insubordination” over the department’s dropping of a lawsuit challenging Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE)’s purchase of fellow tech company Juniper.