It’s Lee to Cruz to Hawley as GOP makes antitrust play on MLB – By Alexei Alexis (Roll Call) / April 13 2021
Move comes after MLB moves the All-Star Game from Georgia
Three Senate Republicans, including Mike Lee, R-Utah, said they will introduce legislation on Wednesday that would end a century-old antitrust exemption for Major League Baseball.
The three senators announced the legislation in the wake of the organization’s decision to move this year’s All-Star Game to Denver from Atlanta after Georgia enacted a state law that civil rights advocates say could restrict access to voting for minority groups.
“This exemption was created from whole cloth by the Supreme Court 99 years ago,” Lee, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee, said at a press conference Tuesday. “It’s not a ruling that enjoys any support, either from the statutory text or the Constitution.”
He was joined by cosponsors of the bill, Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
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