She wrote a paper that provides a new legal basis for antitrust enforcement in the U.S. that allows for different theories from the currently prevailing "consumer harm" doctrine.
Who did she know?
Her paper on antitrust was a huge deal in the legal world. It would be more accurate to ask, "who knew her?" and the answer would be pretty much everybody in the legal community.
What the actual hell is this?
It was an attempt to block a merger. Which was slightly more successful than the last FTC action against Microsoft...which led to them unbundling IE for a few years. And that failure was back when the FTC was full of experienced lawyers coming off decades of actively pursuing antitrust cases.
Like I don't care about her ideological positions or wtv, but has she actually succeeded in any anti trust case? Cuz I have been rage clicking through her history, and while her academic record is impressive, I see nothing successful during her tenure at the ftc.
The FTC hasn't had a successful major antitrust case in decades...