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The Justice Department and Google battle over how to fix a search engine monopoly (text.npr.org)
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Nearly a year ago, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on the search engine market.

It was a decision that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and Washington.

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[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

I mean... maybe? Could an EO be used to just dismiss an existing case? Maybe. It's kinda make believe land over there right now, so it's hard to say what is and isn't in the realm of possibility.

And I don't know the legal system well enough to say for sure how he could go about it. Presumably some bureaucracy would have to be intervened in to stop the case from proceeding normally. Whether or not he could do that legally seems to be a bit contentious:

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/what-power-does-the-president-have-over-the-federal-bureaucracy/

However, there's also the question of could he just have some cronies walk in to the place with a bunch of dudes in black suits and do it anyways? I think the DoJ would be pretty pissed if he tried that, but he's already been flirting with contempt of court and we haven't seen any judge pull the trigger on that yet, so we'll see, I guess.

There's also the fact that nobody's given him incentive to do it yet. They'll probably wait and see, as Trump would likely need a sizeable reason to step in, so why pay potentially more on Trump whithout knowing what the damages will even be, right?