President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will nominate Google critic and progressive favorite Jonathan Kanter to lead the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

The selection is another shot across the bow at the Big Tech firms, following his nomination of Lina Khan to lead the Federal Trade Commission. Khan has been a longtime critic of the status quo antitrust framework as it relates to the tech sector. Both Khan’s post at the FTC and the role Kanter would fill if confirmed to the DOJ share responsibility for prosecuting illegal monopolies and stopping anticompetitive mergers in their tracks.

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“President Biden has made an excellent choice to lead the DOJ’s antitrust division,” Sarah Miller, executive director of anti-monopoly group American Economic Liberties Project, said in a statement. “A formidable attorney, Kanter has devoted his career to reinvigorating antitrust enforcement. He has crafted many of the most successful legal arguments driving the major antitrust investigations into Big Tech. And he is widely respected on both sides of the aisle in Congress and in the legal community.”