• krayj@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I think you are missing fully half of the story here.

    If someone gives you lavish gifts, free luxury vacations, use of their private jet, all-expenses paid vacation cruises, you start thinking of that person as a ‘friend’, no?

    In this case, ‘friend of the court’ clearly has double meaning because the amicus curiae is also simultaneously one and the same person as the billionaire gift giver I described earlier. In layman’s terms, it’s bribery.

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      1 year ago

      The writer is clearly trying to make that link by misinterpreting the language of the court.