Amazon said in its filing that it was requesting Khan's
recusal from all matters related to Amazon because of her previous work while
at an antitrust advocacy group, public statements and work for a congressional
subcommittee.
"Given her long track record of detailed pronouncements
about Amazon, and her repeated proclamations that Amazon has violated the
antitrust laws, a reasonable observer would conclude that she no longer can
consider the company's antitrust defenses with an open mind," Amazon said
in its filing. "Indeed, doing so would require her to repudiate the years
of writings and statements that are at the foundation of her professional
career."
The FTC declined comment.
The agency is investigating Amazon as part of a series of
probes underway into Big Tech. It is also probing Amazon's planned purchase of
the U.S. movie studio MGM.
Khan wrote a piece for the Yale Law Journal in 2017 which
argues that current antitrust law, which focuses on prices and the short term,
fail to capture harms done by companies like Amazon, including predatory
pricing.
She also worked for the House Judiciary antitrust committee,
which wrote a massive report that spelled out what it said was anti-competitive
conduct by Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet's Google.
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