' The staggering number of junkets indicate that ... right-wing legal interests funded by the mega-wealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips to far-flung locales. As with [similar] gifts to Supreme Court justices, the trips effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hardline conservative legal views. '

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https://www.levernews.com/billionaires-are-bankrolling-judges-luxury-travel/