Anyone not familiar with this, NPR Planet Money has a great podcast about this.
www.npr.org/transcripts/1124477182
Tldr: right wing economists teach judges why trickle down economics is good and poor people are stupid.
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someguy3@lemmy.world 7 months agoThere’s a right wing seminar of economics that they invite and “educate” supreme Court justices on how economics works. Well their ideology of economics anyway. Don’t recall if it was a one time thing back then or ongoing but holy cow.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 months ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup that’s where I learned about this.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You don’t even need something so explicit - justices regularly rub elbows with billionaires and are pretty clearly influenced by the association.
We need something like Discworld’s unseen university where they can just be academics locked away from public discourse and celebrity - being a Supreme Court Justice should be an obscure dead-end of a job that only appeals to the legally obsessed.