By David McLaughlin and Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg News
The Trump team is considering giving a top antitrust post to a former U.S. trade commissioner whose hands-off views on competition have at times failed to withstand court scrutiny.
Joshua Wright, a conservative law professor who heads President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team for the Federal Trade Commission, is under consideration to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division, two people with knowledge of the deliberations said. Others may also still be in the running.
The post would give Wright oversight of corporate mergers.
A Republican who served as an FTC commissioner from 2013 to ...
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