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Imagine how outraged we’d be if we found out Federal Judges were going out to dinner with lobbyists and then having those lobbyists draft their judicial opinions for the Judge to just sign their name on without even reading it first. I don’t understand why it’s not equally outrageous that Congress does this on a daily basis.

Equally nuts is the special interest group that Upcodes is battling. They draft regulations and then _charge_ the public to access the regulations that they’ve lobbied lawmakers to adopt claiming some sort of IP right over the law.



One might also be outraged if a Supreme Court justice was married to a lobbyist who was paid to advocate for positions relevant to matters on the court.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/virginia-thomas-ext...




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