Originally Posted by
RemoveB4flght
The government isn’t going to back off this because ultimately it’s not about negotiating the best possible terms on this particular deal for the ‘people’, it’s about the chance at securing a precedent decision and using that case law in anti trust cases
And if the judge hammers them for overstepping existing precedent that sets an even more restrictive precedent. And with the current attack on Chevron Deference that’s the very LAST thing the Biden administration wants. There has been no significant change in antitrust legislation since AS bought VX. Unless there is, DOJ actually NEEDS to compromise.