Nancy Scola

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Nancy Scola

Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ’s antitrust division, will show how serious the right is about bringing big tech companies to heel. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Gail Slater looks on during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Feb. 12, 2025.

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nancy Scola

“I can’t tell you what joy this gathering is bringing to me,” says Gail Slater. It is early April, three weeks into Slater’s new job as assistant attorney general for antitrust, President Donald Trump’s top cop on corporate monopolies.

Dec 7, 2024 | theinformation.com | Nancy Scola

A decade or so ago, Gigi Sohn—then the head of Public Knowledge, an internet rights nonprofit—was working closely with Gail Slater, at the time the general counsel to a tech trade group called the Internet association, on the issue of net neutrality legislation. Sohn assumed Slater, who had previously been a legal adviser to a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, was a Democrat too. Slater didn’t give her any reason to believe otherwise—until she ’fessed up one day.

Dec 2, 2024 | jill.substack.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Nancy Scola |Sarah Wildman |Jane Mayer

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Nov 30, 2024 | yahoo.com | Nancy Scola

Two days after the election, Patrick Dillon, a longtime Democratic strategist and current Biden administration official, announced on X that he was leaving the platform.