
By Joe Nocera, Bloomberg
When Major League Baseball decided to move the midseason All-Star game out of Atlanta to protest a new Georgia law that restricts voting, Republican congressman Jeff Duncan of South Carolina quickly tweeted an idea for how to retaliate:
Other Republicans, including Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, agreed. “Why does @MLB still have antitrust immunity?” Lee asked.
You know what? It’s a good question. Congress should get rid of it, not as an act of revenge but because it has outlived its usefulness. In fact, it never truly had any legitimate usefulness; the antitrust exemption, which no other professional sport enjoys, is as nonsensical a thing as exists in the law.
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