Oops! The Supreme Court Heard Another Case Built on Shameless Lies.
SlateThis is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in Moore v. United States, an effort to preemptively kill a future wealth tax before it can even be enacted. Related From Slate The Supreme Court’s Fake Praying Coach Case Just Got Faker That’s a lie. And the idea that one of the justices would, during oral arguments, say, “Hmm, Mr. Grossman, everything you’re saying is a lie”—that would never happen. Even if you know that the other side is lying, you are not willing to go up there and say, before the justices, the black-robed oracles: “Hey, by the way, everything you just heard was perjury, and you should probably send this guy to some tiny jail in the Supreme Court basement because every word out of his mouth has been a lie.” That just doesn’t happen.