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> the enforcement making power that congress duly granted to agency to bring law suits. wrong again. See the "major questions" decisions from SCOTUS. Congress
by AlbertCory 3y ago
> the enforcement making power that congress duly granted to agency to bring law suits.
wrong again. See the "major questions" decisions from SCOTUS. Congress didn't grant them to power to do whatever they feel like.
- bbatha 3y agoPlease tell me what major question this is violating? Anti-trust law is explicitly given in its ability to bring suit to these companies. The consumer harm standard isn't even a part of the law arguably the consumer harm standard should be overturned by the major questions doctrine since the court wrote the rule into the law wholesale without congresses directive decades after the law was written.
- AlbertCory 3y agoIsn't the DOJ the usual agency for antitrust complaints like this? Incidentally, since you're regressing on the "consumer harm isn't even part of the law" thing, which you've already lost -- we're done here.
- bbatha 3y agoBoth are, the FTC was created with shared jurisdiction on matters of anti-trust. However, the supreme court recently limited that to injunctive powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMG_Capital_Management,_LLC_v._FTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMG_Capital_Management,_LLC_v.... relief would be through a DOJ suit or via state AGs