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Chicago School economists - whose job (to quote #DavidRoth) is to find new ways to say "actually, your boss is right" - held enormous sway of the federal judiciary. The billionaire-backed #ManneSeminars offered free "continuing education" junkets to judges - all-expense-paid luxury vacations salted with lengthy your-boss-is-right econ seminars. 40% of the US federal judiciary got their heads filled up at a Manne Seminar.
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The Chicago School's paymasters funded lavish junkets - the #ManneSeminars - where 40% of the federal judiciary attended luxury re-education camps to teach them to love monopolies:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down
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The fact that we've largely forgotten this truth - a truth that can be easily verified simply by reading the Sherman Act and its successors - isn't an accident of history. Some of the richest people in the history of the human race poured enormous fortunes into burying it. Take the #ManneSeminars, lavish junkets for federal judges that bamboozled them with the Bork's conspiratorial account of antitrust laws' true intent:
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124477182/federal-judges-economics-boot-camp
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