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Sunday, December 17th, 2023

Billionaires Are Bankrolling Judges’ Luxury Travel

Author:     Andrew Perez
Source:     The Lever
Publication Date:     DEC 15, 2023
 Link: Billionaires Are Bankrolling Judges’ Luxury Travel
Stephan:  

The level of corruption in the United States is mind-boggling, not just the Congress and state legislatures, but all levels of the judiciary. Corporate media, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox propaganda, NewsMax propaganda, barely cover any of this. What I find particularly offensive is the corruption of George Mason University. As it happens I am a Mason scholar (see the Smithsonian website and search on Forgotten Founder) and Mason would be appalled at what is being done under his name. He was the founder who came up with the ideal of inalienable rights, wrote the Virginia Bill of Rights, and guided James Madison, in a sense his protege, in the writing of the Constitutional Bill of Rights. Mason was one of the main authors of the Constitution, but did not sign it because it did not end the slave trade. He predicted the civil war. That the name of such a man of honor would be involved in the corruption of the courts is one of the nastiest chapters in U.S. history.

In 2021 and 2022, two conservative, billionaire-funded legal interests sent more than 100 federal judges on 251 trips to conferences and seminars in cushy locations around the country and overseas, according to a Lever review of hundreds of federal financial disclosure forms. 

In all, George Mason University (GMU) and The Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers network, funded more than 40 percent of travel-related payments reported by federal judges in those years, far more than any other group. 

The staggering number of junkets indicate that, as conservative Supreme Court justices face scrutiny for failing to disclose private luxury travel supplied by billionaire donors, right-wing legal interests funded by the mega-wealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips to far-flung locales. As with the gifts to Supreme Court justices, the trips effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hardline conservative legal views.

GMU — a Virginia-based public research university that’s home to the conservative Antonin Scalia Law School and its pro-business, anti-regulation Law and Economics program — […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    It is not in the interests of Corporations to cover this type of corruption. Hence it is not covered, and it is hoped by then that the details disappear into the dustbin of History. A perfect illustration of why the common person trusts none of the major media. They do not work in the public interest.