More than seven months into the Trump administration, the Justice Department is still waiting for a permanent official to lead its antitrust division. But the White House isn’t to blame for this particular delay. The president made his nomination for assistant attorney general for antitrust early April. It’s been stuck in the Senate ever since, despite the fact that DoJ has several high-profile corporate merger cases on its plate. Juan Arteaga,  partner at the law firm Crowell and Moring and former deputy assistant AG for civil enforcement, spoke with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what the lack of a Senate-confirmed assistant AG means for the antitrust division.

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