NY-12 Democratic nominee?
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JUN 24, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
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.)
Notable personal detailsLina Maliha Khan is a legal scholar and former Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, serving from 2021 to 2025. She has been an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School and has written and taught on antitrust and competition policy, including influential scholarship on digital platforms. 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 a candidate in New York’s 12th Congressional District, where she is discussing AI policy, digital literacy, broadband, data centers, and worker protections in the 2026 campaign. Her campaign is also emphasizing opposition to Citizens United and Super PAC spending, saying it relies on small donations instead of corporate PACs, Super PACs, or AI companies. Overall, the coverage shows her campaign focusing on tech policy and campaign finance reform, but it does not report a nomination result.
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