As content creators and labor unions, First Amendment advocates and politicians increasingly warn of mergers and further consolidation, the battles may be fought by a different set of players than D.C.’s antitrust enforcers.
When California, New York and six other states sued this week to block a major broadcast merger between Nexstar and Tegna, the noted absence among the plaintiffs was the federal government. Nor is it expected to join the challenge.
Likewise, when an antitrust trial against Live Nation resumed this week, the lead plaintiff was no longer the Justice Department but rather dozens of states, holdouts from a federal settlement with the live music giant.
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Similarly, with expectations that the Trump administration will give the greenlight to proposed mergers of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, some state attorneys general, like California’s Rob Bonta, have vowed
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