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Dirty tricks? Trump Super-PAC sent out a bogus Medicare cancellation notice to scare voters about Kamala Harris.One of the largest pro-Trump superPACs has dropped a massive mailing of “Medicare Cancellation Notices” letting seniors know that Kamala Harris is preparing to end the program or at least throw them off it. As David Corn reports at Mother Jones, some of the richest men in America are behind it: “MAGA, Inc. is the top pro-Trump super PAC. It has raised over $300 million during the 2024 campaign, most of it from Republican billionaires, including Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald; Paul Singer, a hedge fund manager; Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner and real estate magnate who went to jail for tax evasion and for retaliating against a federal witness (and whom Trump pardoned); and Timothy Mellon, the reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, who has pumped in over $150 million.” What could these billionaires want? If you selected “more tax cuts” and “a return to segregation” I’d bet you’d have hit it right on the nose. Meanwhile, an unknown GOP-aligned group is sending text messages to college students in Wisconsin threatening them with prison if they dare vote. These people will stop at nothing…

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https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-singer-block-student-loan-forgiveness-2023-6

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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, Jr. took a fishing trip with a billionaire who has donated to — and serves as chairman for — a group that asked the Supreme Court to block student-loan forgiveness.

That news comes as borrowers are waiting for the Supreme Court to announce a decision this month on whether or not to uphold President Joe Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 for federal student-loans.

On Wednesday, ProPublica published an investigation on a vacation Alito took in July 2008 at a luxury fishing lodge in Alaska that reportedly cost over $1,000 a day. He was accompanied by Paul Singer, a billionaire whose hedge fund appeared before the Supreme Court at least ten times following the fishing trip and won votes from Alito in some of those cases.

As ProPublica reported, Singer has given over $80 million to Republican political groups — including the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank for which Singer has served as chairman since 2008. That group also filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court asking it to block Biden's relief plan — a decision the court is expected to hand down in the coming days.

"If the government's purpose were truly to reduce the harm of more frequent defaults, there are far more direct means available to that end," the Manhattan Institute wrote in its February brief referring borrowers who risked defaulted on their debt following the pandemic. "These include more aggressive measures to put borrowers on income-based repayment plans and, perhaps even more straightforward, waiving some of the legal consequences of missed payments."

"A $400 billion debt-forgiveness plan is a major policy decision that must be made by Congress, and Congress has declined to enact that policy," it added. "The administration's debt-forgiveness action should be vacated."

A spokesperson for Singer told ProPublica that Singer was not aware Alito would be on the fishing trip when he chose to attend, and that Singer "never discussed his business interests" with Alito during the trip. The spokesperson also said that Singer did not have "any pending matters before the Supreme Court, nor could Mr. Singer have anticipated in 2008 that a subsequent matter would arise that would merit Supreme Court review."

Meanwhile, instead of responding directly to ProPublica's questions on the investigation, Alito wrote an opinion piece published on Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal, in which the conservative justice denied the claims the investigation made and wrote that "I have spoken to Mr. Singer on no more than a handful of occasions, all of which (with the exception of small talk during a fishing trip 15 years ago) consisted of brief and casual comments at events attended by large groups."

"On no occasion have we discussed the activities of his businesses, and we have never talked about any case or issue before the Court," Alito wrote.

ProPublica also reported that Alito delivered a keynote address in 2010 for donors to the Manhattan Institute, during which Singer called Alito "a model Supreme Court justice" in his introduction. Of course, it's unclear how the Supreme Court will rule on Biden's student-debt relief plan — just as it's unclear how big of an influence donors could have on the impending decision.

Following ProPublica's report, advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center sent a letter to Alito on Wednesday — obtained by Insider — that demanded he recuse himself from the two lawsuits seeking to block Biden's debt relief: Biden v. Nebraska, and Brown v. US Department of Education.

The SBPC wrote in its letter that the Job Creators Network, which represented the plaintiffs in Brown v. US Department of Education, received financial support from the Judicial Crisis Network — a group that Singer has donated to in the past.

"Paul Singer's direct and indirect financial ties to parties in Brown and amici in Brown and Nebraska raise serious questions about your ability to decide neutrally and impartially," the SBPC wrote.

Along with the conservative groups who filed amicus briefs on the issue earlier this year, Democratic lawmakers and advocates did the same — and expressed confidence in the legality of student-debt cancellation for millions of borrowers.

"As these diverse groups made clear today, student loan borrowers from all walks of life suffered profound financial harms during the pandemic and their continued recovery and successful repayment hinges on the Biden Administration's student debt relief plan," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said of the briefs in January. "We will continue to defend our legal authority to provide the debt relief working and middle-class families clearly need and deserve."

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote a WSJ op-ed instead of commenting for a story that revealed his ties to a billionaire who had 10 cases before SCOTUS

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Justice Samuel Alito's billionaire donor's hedge fund, Elliott Management, plans to dispute a new set of financial regulations that were created to combat fraud, Jacobin reports.

This comes after the justice's Wall Street Journal op-ed ran earlier this week "in what appeared to be an effort to preempt" a "ProPublica report that raises questions about Alito's failure to recuse himself from a case involving hedge fund magnate Paul Singer, as well as allegations that Alito failed to 'list certain items as gifts' on his 2008 financial disclosures."

Using a Supreme Court decision supported by Alito, according to the report, Elliot suggests "the rules are unconstitutional, and could ultimately try to bring a case before Alito to strike down the new regulations if they are enacted."

Alito wrote in the WSJ op-ed, "ProPublica has leveled two charges against me. First, that I should have recused in matters in which an entity connected with Paul Singer was a party and, second, that I was obligated to list certain items as gifts on my 2008 Financial Disclose [sic] Report."

Per Jacobin, "Elliott’s efforts to weaponize a recent Supreme Court case to block anti-fraud rules — and to potentially use the high court to kill them — spotlights how judges are in key positions to help billionaires who provide them with gifts and other largesse."

According to the report, an attorney for Elliott Elliott said, "This would pose an existential threat to the activist investor’s business model."

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supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito said that a controversial fishing trip he took in 2008 with billionaire Paul Singer didn’t need to be disclosed, and in fact, saved the United States money.

Alito wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed in response to a ProPublica report that slammed the justice for not recusing himself from cases involving Singer following a fishing trip to Alaska with the billionaire. He was also accused of not disclosing the trip as a gift. Justices are required to report gifts costing more than $415, however there are exceptions for “personal hospitality.”

ProPublica alleged that Alito was flown to Alaska on Singer’s private jet, which the outlet says would have cost over $100,000 if Alito had charted the plane himself.

The justice says this is a misrepresentation of the situation. Alito says that he was asked to join the trip as there was an open seat on the plane, and so Singer’s cost would have been the same whether or not Alito was there.

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“Had I taken commercial flights, that would have imposed a substantial cost and inconvenience on the deputy U.S. Marshals who would have been required for security reasons to assist me,” Alito wrote.

When a Supreme Court Justice takes a domestic trip, the United States Marshal Service provides security, but only if they’re asked, according to USMS policy via advocacy group Fix the Court. The costs for USMS security is generally reimbursed to the agency by the judiciary.

Alito argued there was no need to disclose the gift since his presence on the trip didn’t cost Singer any additional funds, and that the food and accomodations at the King Salmon Lodge, provided by the owner of the venue, did not reach disclosure levels.

“I stayed for three nights in a modest one-room unit at the King Salmon Lodge, which was a comfortable but rustic facility. As I recall, the meals were homestyle fare. I cannot recall whether the group at the lodge, about 20 people, was served wine, but if there was wine it was certainly not wine that costs $1,000,” Alito wrote.

Alito also addressed the argument that he should have recused himself on cases involving Singer. He said that prior to the trip, his staff checked through the pending cases, and Singer’s name did not come up. In one case, Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd., though Singer was the founder and CEO of NML Capital, Alito says his name didn’t appear in any of the filed documents, and thus, Alito didn’t know.

Alito also argued that despite the trip, he was not close with Singer at all.

“My recollection is that I have spoken to Mr. Singer on no more than a handful of occasions, all of which (with the exception of small talk during a fishing trip 15 years ago) consisted of brief and casual comments at events attended by large groups. On no occasion have we discussed the activities of his businesses, and we have never talked about any case or issue before the Court,” Alito wrote.

In a timeline from ProPublica, NML Capital first asked the Supreme Court to become involved in the case in May 2007, which the court declined; the fishing trip was a little over a year later. In the following two years, Singer introduced Alito at two events.

Meanwhile, in December 2009, seven of eight additional requests for the Supreme Court to step in to the case were turned down, and in 2014, the remaining appeal was ruled on. The Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd. case was decided in favor of NML Capital in a 7-1 decision, led by Justice Antonin was the only dissent.

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