Lina Khan's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked Khan’s attempt to scupper Microsoft’s $75 billion takeover of gaming company Activision. The case is the latest in a series of high-profile defeats for the progressive wunderkind and face of so-called hipster antitrust.

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On Thursday morning, Elon Musk’s Twitter asked a judge to override an FTC order relating to its data practices and accused Khan’s agency of misconduct and bias towards it. Later that day, Khan appeared in front of the House Oversight Committee, where she received a no-holds-barred grilling from Republican chair Jim Jordan.

The problem for Khan, though, is not that she has had a turbulent week (those are par for the course in Washington) but that, two years after she was appointed FTC chair at just thirty-two, she has startlingly little to show for it.

[Don’t miss my earlier post on the FTC’s attempt to retaliate against Musk for his decision to open Twitter’s files and expose the government’s censorship regime. — Ed]

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