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Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Strip MLB Of Monopoly Protections

By • April 14, 2021 7:21 pm

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Republican Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Mike Lee introduced a new bill to strip Major League Baseball of the antitrust protection its had since 1922. The bill mentions the leauge’s decision earlier in the month to pull the All-Star game from Atlanta, Georgia to protest the new Georgia voting law.

“Major League Baseball won exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act under a 1922 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which determined that professional baseball is not interstate commerce, according to a 2019 article in the Wake Forest Law Review,” Reuters reported.

President Joe Biden express his support for the move and said, ““I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly — I would strongly support them doing that,” Biden said of the boycott, before going on to describe the new Georgia law as “Jim Crow on steroids,” as reported by Washington Post.

“We’re standing here today to say Major League Baseball should have to play by the same rules,” said Cruz during a joint press briefing announcing the proposal, noting that other major sports leagues like the NFL and NBA don’t enjoy the same federal protection,” NY Post reported.

“If they’re gonna play partisan enforcer, they shouldn’t expect to see special goodies from Washington when they are dishonestly acting to favor one party against the other, and doing so in a way that is hurting thousands of small businesses in the city of Atlanta, many of which are owned by African-Americans,” he continued according to the outlet.

Sen. Mike Lee wrote earlier this month on Twitter in response Rep. Jeff Duncan’s post, “Why does @MLB still have antitrust immunity? It’s time for the federal government to stop granting special privileges to specific, favored corporations—especially those that punish their political opponents.”

The Solution Is You Break Them Up

Senator Hawley said, “Monopoly and liberty do not go together. Monopoly is the enemy of the people’s freedom. That’s certainly true of Major League Baseball. It’s true of big tech. It’s true of the monopolies that we see more and more across our economy. When you have concentrations of economic power, political power follows. Now, we’ve seen this before in American history. I mean, this is not unfamiliar to us. A century ago, massive corporations, the railroads, U.S. Steel, attempted to amass economic power and succeeded. They attempted to amass political power and for a time succeeded. And we know what the solution to that is. The solution is you break them up.”

“The solution is trustbusting. And that’s exactly what needs to occur today. This is about preserving the ability of the democratic process to go forward. The fact that Major League Baseball would get together and try to punish [Georgia] because the elected representatives of that state and the elected governor of that state settled on a law to preserve election integrity is unbelievable,” Sen. Hawley continued.

Sen. Hawley appeared on Fox News to reveal his plans to break up big corporate power and wrote to Twitter, “Freedom is protected when there’s competition, not monopoly.”

Senator Ted Cruz also posted earlier this month calling out MLS’s sponsors, “These are MLB’s corporate sponsors, who pressured to pull the All Star game out of Atlanta. Do all of them oppose voter ID? Are all of them willing to be the woke enforcers of the corrupt Democratic Party? And do all hate the 75m who voted for Trump?”

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