Antitrust expert Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the Justice Department’s bid to block Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of rival Simon & Schuster, alleging it would allow just a few publishers to control the prices paid to authors.

First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses Supreme Court arguments concerning a legislative body’s ability to censure a member for unpopular speech without running afoul of the First Amendment.

June Grasso hosts.

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