WASHINGTON - Mike Davis, Founder and President of the Article III Project, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple.
"We commend Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, for bringing this crucial antitrust lawsuit to break up Apple’s destructive and costly monopoly it illegally built around its iPhone.
“Like they did with the Google antitrust lawsuits, Republican state attorneys general should join this bipartisan lawsuit to hold accountable trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolist Apple for its blatant market abuses. Our century-old antitrust laws are targeted law enforcement against anticompetitive tumors on the free market. This is the opposite of the job-crushing, industry-wide regulations that Big Tech welcomes. Free markets require functioning markets.
“We do not have functioning markets when the trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolists—Google, Amazon (China's online shopping mall), Facebook, and Apple—use their market power to crush competition, shutter small businesses, and silence those with whom they disagree.
“We must break up Big Tech's gatekeeping power over information and commerce,” said Davis.
The Article III Project (A3P) was founded by veteran GOP operative and attorney Mike Davis, who, after helping win the Senate confirmation battles of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, developed the reputation as a “take-no-prisoners conservative eager to challenge the left with hardball tactics,” as reported in The New York Times.
A3P defends constitutionalist judges, punches back on radical assaults on judicial independence (like court-packing) and opposes judicial and other nominees who are outside of the mainstream. Davis previously served as Chief Counsel for Nominations to Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and led the Senate confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and a record number of circuit court judges.
