Imagine a system of government where the final arbiters of everything are a tiny group of judges with lifetime tenure, and these judges are allowed to take money from people on whose cases they rule.

Crazy, right? https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579

Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property

The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.

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@JamesGleick Certain moneyed interests identified and exploited the Supreme Court zero-day hack around disclosures decades ago, it turns out.