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There’s a partisan schism over the timing of a Google antitrust lawsuit

September 4, 2020

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Attorney General William Barr is pressuring the career lawyers at the Department of Justice to complete work on a potential antitrust case against Google by the end of September, The New York Times reports. It’s the latest sign of a long-simmering dispute within the government about the timing and scope of the government’s attack on the Silicon Valley behemoth.

Antitrust enforcement against Google has become a rare issue of broad bipartisan agreement. Fifty states and territories have joined a coalition preparing to bring its own antitrust lawsuit against Google. That means that most Republican-controlled states are participating in the effort, as are most Democratic-controlled states.

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