Posted on 12/26/2020 12:16:10 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On Dec. 23, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act (the “Act”), which prohibits employers from retaliating against certain individuals who report criminal antitrust violations. The Act was sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley, passed the Senate on Oct. 17, 2019, and passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 8, 2020.
“We thank the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives for their bipartisan commitment to criminal antitrust enforcement,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. “By incentivizing disclosures of anticompetitive conduct, the Act will strengthen the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement program, a cornerstone of our mission to protect the American consumer.”...
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If it was passed by this congress, you can bet it sucks.
Yeah...Sure... No retaliation?
Yeah...Sure...
BS!
It may, possibly, be a good law but why did it take 14 months for the House to finally pass it? Maybe Pelosi did not want PDJT to get credit for it before Nov 2020 or for the DOJ to use it before Slow Joe could get credit for enforcing the law.
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