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US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job

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275 points belter | 3 comments | 02 Apr 25 11:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bananapub ◴[04 Apr 25 12:36 UTC] No.43581340[source]▶
the headline is perhaps unclear, so from the article:

> The US labour watchdog froze two cases against Apple days after Donald Trump nominated an attorney who represents the tech group to be the agency’s top legal official.

> Trump last week nominated Crystal Carey, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, to be the NLRB’s general counsel. She is listed in the agency’s records as an attorney acting in Apple’s defence in both cases against the Silicon Valley tech group.

the level of just complete capture of the regulatory state by random rich companies is amazing, even beyond trump's first time bullshit like "Appoint the CEO of Exxon to be Secretary of State"

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1. yapyap ◴[04 Apr 25 12:48 UTC] No.43581505[source]▶
Thank you for the clarification.

Ugh, knowing you have a clearly malicious actor as top dog of the country -_- it can’t get more frustrating. Except for the fact that a big part of the country supports it as well.

I do wonder if they even believe in him wholeheartedly or just put on an act cause they’re in too deep and don’t want to give the people who said they were making the wrong choice the “satisfaction” of admitting they were right.

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2. pasc1878 ◴[04 Apr 25 13:13 UTC] No.43581848[source]▶
It is no it an act it is "clean the swamp" that it is get rid of all the controls that the bureaucrats in Washington do. The reason a lot of them exist is to protect the public is probably lost on the public but fully understood by the ones doing it.
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3. NickC25 ◴[04 Apr 25 14:59 UTC] No.43583419[source]▶
Putting a bunch of foxes to guard the henhouse isn't cleaning the swamp. It's replacing the old swamp, which was nakedly self-interested, with a new swamp, which is also nakedly self-interested.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.