Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Jul. 13, 2023
Christine Varney once talked tough about antitrust enforcement; now she sings different tune
“I wonder whether all of the speeches by Biden enforcers about how former enforcers were wrongheaded, and they are pushing the envelope, has had the result that the government doesn’t have that same trust it used to have,” Stephen Calkins, a professor at Wayne State University Law School, said.
Fourteen years ago, Christine A. Varney was the chief antitrust enforcer for the Obama administration and she came into office talking tough, vowing to change what was perceived as a lax approach under President George W. Bush’s administration.
“It is time for the antitrust division to step forward again,” Varney, who previously was a member of the Federal Trade Commission, said in a 2009 speech. “We must change course and take a new tack....
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