well, look, you can t lobby a judge. right. but you can wine and dine them. you can take them to a seminar. you can educate them, teach them new ideas about anti-trust and regulation, and that s what they do. if you look at his decision, by the way, in that wisconsin case, what s fascinating about it is not the substance, because you can argue that the prosecutions were pushing the envelope a little bit on their theory of the coordination in that case with scott walker. what was striking about it was the tone, where he celebrates and says, if they can find a way to evade these campaign laws, great. fantastic. so this investigation, basically, is, look at the recall election, as far as we know, from previous reports, in which they are, you know, prosecutors think it may be the case they violated wisconsin campaign finance law by essentially coordinating illegally. yes. that s what s being looked into it too. and he says, the plaintiffs have found a way to circumvent campaign
a judge who ended walker probe attended finance by junkets financed by koch, bradley, and other conservative foundations. a analyst by the center for media and democracy shows the that judge rudolph randa attended seminars put on by george mason university in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012, according to publicly available financial disclosure forms. the george mason university seminars are bankrolled by a long list of foundations like the charles g. koch foundation, the linde and harry bradley foundation, and the searle freedom trust, in addition to u.s. corporations like ge, and dow capital. that judge who attended those meetings is a reliable conservative of the branch, gained some notoriety for striking down a law, a ruling reversed by the seventh circuit. he recently issued a pretty remarkable and scathing opinion
watergate era on, and slowly whittling back these things. and they ve created an entire academy of lawyers, who believe very strongly in it. and have been very effective in getting those ideas advanced throughout the court system. it s astonishing, in a lot of ways. the walker propose has sort of been dogging him for a while. there s reporting today, a person close to the investigation of wisconsin governor scott walker s campaign and other conservative groups said wednesday, walker s attorney is talking with a lead investigator about a possible settlement that would end the probe. that would probably be good news for him campaign wise, to get this out of the way. i think so. look, it s one of the main issues that the democratic opponent is using against him. it hangs over him. you know, if he can put this behind him, then everything else that happened was the old probe, the last probe, not his problem. right. but if this continues and drags on, it only hurts him, but if the in
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