In a Lawfare post in March, based on the public record as it existed then, we considered the Obama and Trump administrations’ approaches to pursuing evidence from reporters in leak cases and concluded that President Trump’s record “wasn’t that different compared to previous presidencies” (emphasis in original). [read post]

Another straw appeared in the wind on April 6 of that year, when then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch[1] gave a strong and unusually strident speech before the spring meeting of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, singling out anticompetitive mergers for especially pointed criticism, and dismissing some recent proposed transactions as unworthy even of contemplation by the firms involved—a theme laced with scorn for antitrust counselors, their business clients,… [read post]