GOP senators push to end MLB antitrust status

[mystery-ak]

GOP senators push to end MLB antitrust status
By Celine Castronuovo - 04/03/21 08:33 AM EDT





Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Ted Cruz (Texas) have joined calls to end MLB's antitrust exemption following the its decision to pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta.

MLB announced the move on Friday, saying it would relocate the game in protest of Georgia’s voting restrictions signed into law last week. The decision has sparked blowback from GOP lawmakers across the country.

GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan (S.C.) said earlier Friday that he had told his staff to start drafting legislation to remove MLB’s decades-old antitrust exemption “in light of @MLB's stance to undermine election integrity laws.”

“An overwhelming bipartisan majority of Americans support requiring an ID to vote, and any organization that abuses its power to oppose secure elections deserves increased scrutiny under the law,” he added.

Hours later, Lee retweeted Duncan’s post, adding, “Why does @MLB still have antitrust immunity?”

“It’s time for the federal government to stop granting special privileges to specific, favored corporations—especially those that punish their political opponents,” the Utah senator wrote.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/546291-gop-senators-push-to-end-mlb-antitrust-status

[Bigun]

GOP senators push to end MLB antitrust status

Ending it today would work for me!

[dfwgator]

Good!

[jmyrlefuller]

MLB's unique antitrust status is one of the most grievous examples of the flaws in the American judicial system. Refusing to breach stare decisis even in the face of the most egregious proof that it was wrong, and enshrining that naked wrongness by construing it so narrowly that no other sport actually counts under that definition even though the exact same principles apply, is something the Supreme Court must rectify--and it has ramifications far beyond baseball.