Did Politics Influence the Solicitor General’s Support for Oracle in the Google Litigation?

Article by Jonathan Band.

When TikTok selected Oracle as its technology partner in response to President Trump’s executive order that the Chinese firm ByteDance divest its control of TikTok’s U.S. operations, there was widespread speculation in the press that the choice was motivated by the support Oracle’s Chairman and CEO have provided to President Trump. It was assumed that TikTok and Oracle hoped that Trump would approve the arrangement, even though it fell far short of the executive order, as political payback. The possibility of the Administration rewarding Oracle in the TikTok deal raises the question of whether politics influenced another recent governmental action favoring Oracle: the Solicitor General’s amicus briefs in support of Oracle in its long-running litigation with Google, now pending before the Supreme Court. […]

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