When the news alert hit, jaws dropped and whispers befell the one room of Democrats that might see a silver lining to Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general.
Pennsylvania Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was talking about the future of corporate power to a stoic Senate boardroom of progressives discussing corporate power when Trump announced that the hard-right Republican was his pick to lead the Department of Justice.
“This could be great for antitrust,” the stunned anti-monopoly advocate Matt Stoller told NOTUS at the event.