The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a voice vote for the nomination of prominent Google and Big Tech critic Jonathan Kanter to lead the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust division. Kanter, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the division, has been a longtime critic of Alphabet’s Google, and as a lawyer in private practice, has spent years representing rivals of tech giants including Apple and Amazon, who have been suspected of positioning their own products above their competitors in order to generate higher profits. The giant tech companies have denied any wrongdoing. The Justice Department sued Google last year over allegations that the tech giant used its power to preserve its monopoly. A lawsuit, filed in a Washington federal court, asserts that Google had tried to maintain its status as a gatekeeper to the Internet by using a number of interlocking businesses to shut out competitors, thereby securing itself as a monopoly. The DOJ …