opinion
KANGAROO COURT
The enemy of your enemy is not your friend—they represent two competing visions of abuse of power.
Zephyr Teachout is a Law Professor at Fordham, the author of Corruption in America (2014) and Break 'em Up: Recovering our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money (2020).
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