ANALYSIS: Few Antitrust Tea Leaves on Trump’s SCOTUS Picks

The Supreme Court’s docket next term will include two cases that could reshape antitrust enforcement. President Trump’s two most likely candidates to join the court don’t have a lot of past antitrust experience to review in determining how they might affect those decisions.

Both of the judges considered most likely to receive the nomination for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, following Ginsburg’s death Sept. 18, are relatively new to the federal bench and, as a result, have not issued many opinions.

Given that the most important antitrust issue before the Supreme Court next year is one of statutory interpretation and ...