President Trump’s trustbusters don’t take no for an answer. After a federal judge rejected their lawsuit to stop AT&T Inc. from acquiring Time Warner Inc., the Justice Department decided to appeal.
Why? Critics think the Justice Department is doing the bidding of Mr. Trump by punishing Time Warner for the reporting of its news channel, CNN. A more generous theory is, it is testing the frontiers of consumer protection, far more than the administration’s pro-business tilt would imply.
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