Gail Slater is the new antitrust head of Doj
The antitrust division of the United States Ministry of Justice will be directed by Gail Slater following a confirmation vote of the Congress succeeded today. Slater will take up several antitrust cases against large technological companies, deposited under Donald Trump and Joe Biden – including a high -level Google research monopoly suit.
The Senate voted to confirm Slater with bipartite support as a deputy prosecutor for the antitrust division. She will join Trump’s administration for the second time – she worked for the National Economic Council during her first mandate and was an adviser in economic policy and member of the Senate of Vice -President JD Vance before the elections. She has a long history in antitrust law, joining the Federal Trade Commission to work on merger affairs From 2004 And later lobbying for anti-monopoly legislation while working for Roku. The president of the Judicial Committee of the Senate Chuck Grassley (R -A) exhorted colleagues To confirm Slater by noting his “several years” of private antitrust law and a decade of a decade at the FTC.
Slater will join the administration in the middle of US c. GoogleAn antitrust case that saw Google declared an illegal monopoly last year. A Audience scheduled for next month will decide remedies to apply against him, including a potential rupture of the company. She will replace Jonathan Kanter, under which the Doj won his file against Google.
The new antitrust guard dog has not firmly articulated when and where the Doj fought its new battles. When Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee runs the antitrust subcommittee, Asked about his commitment To see through the antitrust application started under Trump, she said: “Resources are of course a very important consideration” to take cases further, adding that antitrust civil disputes are “expensive, which will be consideration”.
Other parts of the Trump administration have used their power to continue political enemies and Trump’s long -standing antagonism with companies like Google has raised concerns of disputes with political motivation. Minnesota Democratic Senator, Amy Klobuchar, who said She had heard good things About Slater, asked during the confirmation hearing if it “would open an investigation or file legal action other than legitimate ends of application of the law”. Slater replied that it “does not provide a factual model as you have described”.
