As the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Merrick Garland, Joe Biden’s choice for attorney general, get started this week, it’s worth scrutinizing Garland’s ties to the corporate sector. One of these connections comes in the form of Jamie Gorelick, a partner at the powerful law firm WilmerHale and a current board member at Amazon. While she isn’t likely to get a formal appointment in the Department of Justice, Gorelick is notably close to Garland. The two have known each other since college and Gorelick has lately been talking up her closeness to the potential attorney general in recent weeks.

The Revolving Door Project, which monitors ties between business and government, recently published a report on Gorelick. The report comes at a time when there is more attention than ever on Amazon as the company fights a union drive at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. As Elias Alsbergas, the report’s author, writes, “WilmerHale’s work brazenly suppressing unions and [Gorelick’s] affiliation with a monopolist like Amazon” makes her closeness with Garland particularly concerning. Given that Gorelick has been publicly discussing her ties to Garland, it is reasonable to assume that this connection will be leveraged to assist corporate clients.

Further, in this week’s hearings, Garland found time to defend corporate lawyers, who will likely have a place in the Department of Justice. As the Prospect reports, Garland said that “’Fortunately or unfortunately, the best antitrust lawyers in the country have some involvement, one way or another’ in tech.” All this, of course, is taking place under a President Biden who says strengthening the labor movement is one of his priorities.