<story><title>Federal judges or their brokers traded stocks of litigants during cases</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judges-brokers-traded-stocks-of-litigants-during-cases-walmart-pfizer-11634306192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Money has infiltrated everything&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Worse, money is protected speech, and using it to buy influence is protected by the law!</text></item><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>Everything&amp;#x27;s corrupted. Pretty much every branch of government is rife with corruption. Even the enforcement is corrupt. Money has infiltrated everything and justice is now truly blind.&lt;p&gt;And if by some miracle you&amp;#x27;re tried and found guilty, you can even buy your way out of serving any time and you can even buy a presidential pardon and have your crime expunged.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re rich, vast majority of laws simply don&amp;#x27;t apply to you. Yet there&amp;#x27;s so many laws on books and many of those laws are so vague that an average person commits several felonies every day. [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Exactly!  Bloomberg spent $1B on his nomination for president and… it failed entirely.</text></comment>
<story><title>Federal judges or their brokers traded stocks of litigants during cases</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judges-brokers-traded-stocks-of-litigants-during-cases-walmart-pfizer-11634306192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Money has infiltrated everything&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Worse, money is protected speech, and using it to buy influence is protected by the law!</text></item><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>Everything&amp;#x27;s corrupted. Pretty much every branch of government is rife with corruption. Even the enforcement is corrupt. Money has infiltrated everything and justice is now truly blind.&lt;p&gt;And if by some miracle you&amp;#x27;re tried and found guilty, you can even buy your way out of serving any time and you can even buy a presidential pardon and have your crime expunged.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re rich, vast majority of laws simply don&amp;#x27;t apply to you. Yet there&amp;#x27;s so many laws on books and many of those laws are so vague that an average person commits several felonies every day. [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>When that happens, people will have even less recourse against media, internet and social media companies using their power to influence.</text></comment>