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Antitrust Proposal Would Empower Bureaucrats & Greedy Trial Lawyers

By  |  May 31, 2021

By Tom Hebert, The Hill

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    The Democratic Party is attempting to weaponize antitrust law to reshape the economy and punish successful American companies for political gain.  

    To that end, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has introduced the “Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act,” a grab-bag of liberal priorities that would stifle innovation and harm American consumers.  

    Notably, the Klobuchar bill shifts the burden of proof from the plaintiff to the defendant in some monopolization cases, overturning decades of antitrust enforcement precedent. Antitrust burden-shifting would give nearly unchecked power to unelected Biden appointees and fatten the coffers of greedy trial lawyers.  

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