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Major League Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Becomes The Next Target Of The Culture Wars

By  |  April 18, 2021

By Peter W. Stevenson, Washington Post

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    Three Republican senators have drafted legislation that would end a special exemption from U.S. antitrust laws that has benefited Major League Baseball for almost a century. It comes after the league announced its All-Star Game will be moved out of Georgia because of the state’s new voting law.

    Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) released the draft legislation Tuesday.

    Their decision to go after Major League Baseball is just one part of a wider conservative assault on corporations that accelerated in the wake of Georgia Republicans passing a new voting and elections law. Critics say the law’s restrictions are specifically aimed at suppressing Black voters who were critical for Democrats in helping to flip both of the state’s Senate seats and delivering the state to President Biden.

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