In just over a year in office, Jonathan Kanter — one of the two most important players in Joe Biden’s efforts to rein in corporate power — has come after America’s biggest companies with force
As head of the more than 800-person antitrust division of the Department of Justice, Jonathan Kanter blocked the world’s largest book publisher from buying a rival and took on the nation’s largest health insurer. | Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
Kanter, a career corporate litigator supported by Elizabeth Warren and allied with a progressive new strain in antitrust thinking, has pushed the DOJ away from settling cases and toward an aggressive strategy of taking companies all the way to court. In the view of Kanter and his allies, it gives him the chance to forge long-term precedent that shapes the government’s ability to constrain what it sees as excessive corporate power.
High-profile defeats, by contrast, would be a warning for any future leaders looking to tangle with the new class of global tech behemoths. Of the two key players Biden put in place as antitrust enforcers, Kanter has the more practical, if potentially conflicted, background. Khan, his counterpart at the Federal Trade Commission, is a 33-year-old think-tanker who first came to prominence by writing a law-review paper in her late 20s arguing for anKanter, 49, took a very different route: He was already a seasoned corporate lawyer when he turned antimonopoly crusader.
Over time, Kanter’s legal practice began to amount to a broader body of thinking about how to rein in over-powerful tech companies. Kanter’s job was “not to debate the fine points of the law, but to understand how an agency will interpret the law, and use that to the benefit of clients,” said Rick Rule, Kanter’s long-time law partner and a prominent conservative lawyer who held Kanter’s job in the Reagan administration, and whom Kanter considers a mentor.
Allowing major mergers and bringing fewer case has begun to change — largely driven by a push to rein in the tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. | Ng Han Guan/AP Photo; Mark Makela/Getty Images; Tony Avelar/AP Photo; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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