Share this page!

David Dayen Profile picture
Twitter logo
15 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The Prospect and The Intercept have learned that Renata Hesse, a former Obama Justice Department official who then went on to work for Google and Amazon, is a leading contender to head up the DoJ Antitrust Division.
Among other things, Hesse would presumably have to recuse herself from the active monopolization case against Google, the biggest anti-monopolization case in 20 years.
Jonathan Kanter, a plaintiff's lawyer who helped design the cases against Google and Facebook, remains "in the mix" for the same job, sources indicate.
But several Obama antitrust veterans are under top consideration to head back to the department once Biden takes over.
Story is developing...
One of them is Juan Arteaga, a partner at Crowell & Moring who at DoJ antitrust oversaw the disastrous American Airlines-USAirways merger. In the private sector he's worked for JPMorgan Chase and United Technologies, among others.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with David Dayen

David Dayen Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ddayen

David Dayen Profile picture
15 Jan
Here's a good day of @theprospect content:
First, @Marcia_Brown9 on "social accountability": how in the absence of legal action against elites with power and influence, civic structures have taken up this responsibility prospect.org/politics/new-e…
Then, @alex_sammon on Prop 22, the California measure keeping Uber/Lyft/Doordash drivers as independent contractors. In just the first month, consumers are paying more, drivers are getting less than promised, and other businesses are taking advantage.
prospect.org/labor/prop-22-…
We have @Lfelizleon using the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America to help inform the Capitol Riot: prospect.org/politics/chick…
Read 4 tweets
David Dayen Profile picture
15 Jan
Here's Biden speaking on his $1.9 trillion plan. I appreciate the ambition. I believe it's a solid collection of policies. I think the strategy is kind of bonkers.
"With interest rates at historic lows, we cannot afford inaction."
The deficit hawk has been shooed away
Biden laying out the rescue half tonight, says the Build Back Better Plan will be the subject of his speech to a joint session of Congress (the State of the Union, effectively)
Read 16 tweets
David Dayen Profile picture
13 Jan
If we had a culture of legal accountability nobody would have to resort to social accountability
For 20 years or more in America the justice system has proven utterly incapable of equal justice, at every level. In that absence, you're just going to get institutions taking on their own forms of justice.
The exact same dynamic happened with #MeToo. Women went to complain about men on social media because there was no hope of success through legal channels.
Read 4 tweets
David Dayen Profile picture
9 Jan
This could be a chapter of my book Monopolized, I swear.
So if you look at this map it may confuse you to see that the top state in terms of getting the vaccine doses out is West Virginia. That's one of them anti-gubmint red states! How? Well...
bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
Well, West Virginia was the only state that didn't sign a contract with the federal government to let CVS and Walgreens administer the vaccination program in nursing homes.
scpr.org/news/2021/01/0…
West Virginia has almost no chain pharmacies. The state instead delivered the supply to independent pharmacists, who had existing relationships with nursing homes in the state. As a result every facility in WV has gone through a first dose.
Read 6 tweets
David Dayen Profile picture
6 Jan
I'm extremely proud of our Georgia runoff coverage because we went right to the places where this election would be decided: Black organizers, Black voters, inside and outside of Atlanta.
prospect.org/topics/eyes-on…
Here's the great @elihday writing about Kelly Loeffler's old, tired fearmongering of Sen.-elect Warnock, which goes all the way back to Reconstruction. This demonization failed.
prospect.org/politics/kelly…
Then Eli went on the Black Voters Matter tour, which stressed year-round organizing to build power. This was a decade in the making and it paid off.
prospect.org/politics/black…
Read 6 tweets
David Dayen Profile picture
1 Jan
In the House rules package, there are specific exemptions to PAYGO for Covid measures and also climate mitigation!
(there's also statutory paygo, but that tends to only be important if the OMB director pays attention to it.
A rundown of other interesting things in the new rules, all of which are below:
rules.house.gov/sites/democrat…
There used to be a rule that the House would have to keep the staff of a former speaker on the payroll. (!!) That's gone.
Read 6 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @ddayen has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @ddayen!

Read all threads by @ddayen