Amicus brief of the Committee for Justice filed in Epic v. Google antitrust appeal argues that the opinion represents a fundamental break from Supreme Court precedent.

The ruling represents an extreme departure from settled antitrust law. The injunction does not merely prohibit unlawful conduct—it compels Google to open the Play Store it built through years of investment to competitors for free, to distribute its entire app catalog to rival stores, and even to carry those rival stores within its own platform.

The Committee for Justice applauds the committee for allocating $37 million below the 2025 FTC appropriations level.

In a recent webinar, experts examined how artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally upending existing data protection laws and reshaping the debate over privacy protections.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ letter demanding Attorney General Pam Bondi to protect renters from market manipulation argues the Department of Justice should intervene in the housing pricing software market—the exact opposite of what the government should do when it comes to antitrust policy. Imploring Bondi to continue litigating a premature lawsuit the Biden administration initiated against the artificial intelligence-driven company RealPage may be well-intentioned f

CFJ Executive Director Ashley Baker will be a panelist at Steptoe’s Sixth Annual Regulatory Symposium on May 14. Ashley will be part of the breakout session entitled “Antitrust and the First Amendment.”

If a business uses ingenuity and business acumen to achieve such dominance, it has done nothing wrong—to the contrary, it has helped consumers through the competitive process. Business acumen can include a refusal to deal with rivals. The later is exactly what Google did with Play Store in the market for smartphone apps. Yet the district court has punished Google for these actions and forced it to open its Play Store to all of its rivals, without any conditions.

Discussions of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have long included concerns about AI systems’ potential to discriminate against racial minorities, women, and other groups said to be disadvantaged. But more recently, there have been increasing concerns about the dangers of Woke AI. Because generative AI models learn from large amounts of real-world data, which is primarily gleaned from internet content and thus tends to reflect dominant cultural views...

The Committee for Justice writes in support of the FY2025 Appropriations Bill’s provisions related to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).