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Jim Jordan Misfires in Attacks on Lina Khan
House Judiciary Committee Republicans didnt follow Jordan in his assaults on Khans ethics. Some Republicans even praised her.BY DAVID DAYEN JULY 14, 2023
As Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan entered the House Judiciary Committee hearing room on Thursday, every expectation was that she would face a grilling, along the lines of what FBI director Christopher Wray experienced the day before. And it did start out that way, with committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and his allies hammering on two familiar subjects: whether Khan ignored an ethics officials advice in declining to recuse in a merger case involving Meta, and whether Khan overstepped boundaries in seeking information from Twitter about releases of personal user data to journalists.
But as the hearing went on, Republican committee members either moderated their rhetoric or even expressed support for her actions at the FTC. Some started asking about specific cases of monopolistic conduct, from pharmacy benefit managers to grocery chains. The vast majority of Republicans stayed away from Jordans line of inquiry. And even where they disagreed with Khan, it was relatively substantive. Remarkably, it became an actually interesting hearingat times a bipartisan inquiry into various aspects of corporate power, a faint glimmer of actual congressional work on a committee characterized often by spin and shouting.
In the end, the hearing showed that Jordan, in attempting to link his broader critique of the weaponization of government to Khans work at the FTC, didnt have buy-in from his colleagues. If this was supposed to be a springing of a trap, the trap didnt spring. Jordans ambush turned disastrous for him.
https://prospect.org/power/2023-07-14-jim-jordan-misfires-attacks-lina-khan/
( Lina is hitting it out of the ballpark. )
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Jim Jordan Misfires in Attacks on Lina Khan (Original Post)
BeckyDem
Jul 2023
OP
His life is aseries of disasterous turns he himself authored, what kind of person votes for this ...
marble falls
Jul 2023
#1
I'm a native Ohioan and I am flumoxed over it. I live in Texas, I expect the nimroddery I see here..
marble falls
Jul 2023
#3
marble falls
(61,292 posts)1. His life is aseries of disasterous turns he himself authored, what kind of person votes for this ...
... walking disaster?
niyad
(118,900 posts)2. People even more disgusting than he is!
marble falls
(61,292 posts)3. I'm a native Ohioan and I am flumoxed over it. I live in Texas, I expect the nimroddery I see here..
... but not in Ohio.
niyad
(118,900 posts)4. Having lived both in Ohio and Texas, I am right there with you!
jonstl08
(412 posts)5. Misfit
Gym Jordan is the poster child of a walking misfit
Crowman2009
(2,753 posts)6. Says the man who covered up sex abuse.
You wanna talk about a lack of ethics.