Lina Khan
Lina Khan
NY-12 Democratic nominee?
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JUN 24, 2026Primary Election
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Overview
Current roleLegal scholar
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
Age37 years old (Mar 3, 1989)
GenderFemale
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BackgroundLegal scholar
EducationWilliams College — B.A., 2010
Notable personal detailsLina Maliha Khan is a legal scholar known for her work on antitrust and competition policy. She served on the Federal Trade Commission beginning in June 2021 and was Chair of the FTC from June 15, 2021 to January 20, 2025. She has been a faculty member at Columbia Law School and previously worked on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust investigation into digital markets. She earned a B.A. from Williams College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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Positions
Healthcare
Lina Khan’s public statements and official work focus on using antitrust and consumer-protection tools to increase competition in health care markets, limit harmful private equity consolidation, challenge patent strategies that keep drug prices high, and address noncompete clauses that restrict health‑care workers. She has not articulated a clear position in favor of single‑payer/Medicare for All or explicit support for a specific major health‑care entitlement expansion in the sources reviewed. Her record centers on market‑structure and competition remedies to lower costs and protect access.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
As FTC Chair Lina Khan has taken regulatory actions to protect people seeking reproductive health care from commercial surveillance and has directed the agency to ban sale of sensitive location data that could identify visits to reproductive health clinics, she supports measures that protect access to reproductive care by limiting privacy harms. Her public actions focus on safeguarding data and privacy for those seeking abortion and other reproductive services rather than articulating specific legislative proposals to codify Roe v. Wade.
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Climate & Energy
Lina Khan has used her role as FTC Chair to update federal guidance and oversight related to environmental claims and to scrutinize consolidation in the oil and gas sector. Her actions include launching a formal review of the FTC’s Green Guides for environmental marketing claims and overseeing inquiries into large oil-and-gas mergers. These steps indicate support for regulatory oversight of climate-related corporate practices and consumer-facing environmental claims while addressing competition issues in energy markets.
News
Lina Khan is in the news as one of ten Democrats set to appear at a candidate forum for New York’s 12th Congressional District. The event will give voters a chance to hear opening remarks and a moderated discussion as candidates compete to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler.
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