Biden’s Antitrust Cop Refuses to Yield After Chilling M&A Deals

Hetal Doshi sprinted down the marble hallway on the fourth floor of the Justice Department’s antitrust division last month.

“We won! We won! We won!” she shouted, bursting into a wood-paneled conference room where Jonathan Kanter, the assistant US attorney general for antitrust, sat talking with a team of young lawyers. Doshi, Kanter’s head of litigation, embraced him.

Kanter paused. “What did we win?”

Minutes earlier, a federal judge in Washington had ruled that Alphabet Inc.’s Google had illegally monopolized the market for online search and search advertising. The decision marked the US’s most significant victory in a monopoly case ...