Will Justice Roberts and the Justice Department Go Kid Gloves Against Google?

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American Greatness

It’s no exaggeration to say Google received carte blanche from the Obama Administraion to violate federal antitrust, privacy, and intellectual property laws. It’s been reported that more than 400 meetings took place between the White House and Google employees, and that 55 former Google employees, lawyers, and lobbyists worked for the administration. Clearly, Google’s roots are deeply embedded in D.C.

Thankfully, President Trump and Attorney General William Barr largely have put a stop to Google’s crony influence, but the company is trying to use its considerable power and influence to fend off possible accountability from the nation’s judicial branch.  

The Department of Justice is in the middle of an antitrust investigation against Google, and the Supreme Court is about to hear a case addressing Google’s possible intellectual property theft.  

Google’s pending Supreme Court plea will try to overturn an appeals court decision, which found the company violated U.S. copyright laws to create Android. Google does not deny taking thousands of lines of code from Oracle but it has tried to invent a legal theory to make that code uncopyrightable.   

As Allum Bokhari at Breitbart noted, several Google-funded think tanks—including the American Antitrust Institute, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public Knowledge—all filed amicus briefs arguing Google had the right to take the code. Fortunately, the Trump Justice Department ignored these paid interest groups and filed an amicus brief against Google, noting that all these paid “policy arguments are unpersuasive.”