Leah, where have we reached you?

I am hiding on the fourth floor of the DC District Courthouse during a lunch break in

USB Google.

Leah Nyland is a reporter for Bloomberg News who covers antitrust.

She's also kind of my lawsuit buddy.

The person who helps explain what it means when the government files a case against

big tech, which has happened a lot lately, with Google and Amazon, and yet again, Amazon.

I mean, I feel like at this point I have you on antitrust speed dial.

Yeah, I don't mind, you know.

Leah was kind enough to take a break from one antitrust case to talk to us about another.

The suit, the Federal Trade Commission, and 17 states filed this week against Amazon,

saying the company broke the law in order to keep its monopoly position in e-commerce.

Where does it stack up in the pantheon of big tech cases?

I have been telling people that we can't call USB Google like the antitrust trial this

century anymore because now we have FTCV Amazon and that might, you know, just place it.

Would you say this is the case that Lena Khan has been waiting for?

This is definitely the case that Lena Khan has been waiting for.

She has been making the media rounds a little bit this week, which she doesn't do that often.

So, you know, it was a little bit special and talking a lot about why they think that

this is like a really important landmark case for them to bring and how it's actually

different from the paper that she sort of rose to fame after writing in 2017.

Back in 2017, Lena Khan was just a law student writing in the Yale Law Journal about Amazon

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