Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Delivers Remarks at the Antitrust Division’s Second Roundtable on Competition and Deregulation

Today’s roundtable will focus on antitrust consent decrees, and on deregulation through different approaches to consent decrees. Just as this roundtable is in the middle of our three-part series, today’s topic is central to our goals to streamline antitrust enforcement. I believe antitrust enforcers should approach using consent decrees consistent with a view of the Antitrust Division as a law enforcement agency, not a regulatory one. As Justice Robert Jackson once posited, “[w]e should not spend great sums to obtain decrees which are economically unenforceable and, when carried out in form, are often only lessons in futility.”