Why Was John Mulaney at the Supreme Court?
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The comedian, it turns out, is working on a TV show about the nation's top court — and was on hand to hear oral arguments about the pivotal Trump tariffs case.

Katyal is a super-lib lawyer who charges $3,250 an hour and he’ll do anything for money. The photo is him hanging out at Burning Man.

He defended Nestlé at the Supreme Court. He argued corporations can use child slave labor because international law does not apply to them. His logic was that the company which supplied Zyklon B to the Nazis was not indicted at the Nuremberg trials.

In 2020, Katyal represented Nestlé and Cargill at the Supreme Court in Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe, a class-action suit brought by former enslaved children who were kidnapped and forced to work on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast. Katyal’s argument was that Nestlé and Cargill should not be held liable under United States law for their use of child slave labor because international law does not apply to corporations.

Katyal cited as an example that the company which supplied Zyklon B to the Nazis to kill Jews and other minorities in extermination camps was not indicted at the Nuremberg trials. Katyal was criticized by publications including The New Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Katyal

  • Euergetes [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    22 days ago

    ngl the dozens of staff weekend at bernies-ing around those corpses would be good fodder for a comedy. ‘west wing’ seems like a bad comparison for that, but John Mulaney has only done comedy shit so idk what they’re going for

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      9·
      22 days ago

      John Mulaney has only done comedy shit so idk what they’re going for

      I first learned about the show in a very-annoying-to-read blog post. Mulaney is cuckoo for the Constitution. The text has stuff like this…

      When asked about Mulaney’s presence at oral argument in Learning Resources, [Akhil Amar] described the comedian to Business Insider as “a serious public intellectual with a deep interest in law and American civics.” Amar added that Mulaney has listened to all 250 episodes of Amar’s podcast, Amarica’s Constitution, a description which, if accurate, I cannot imagine applies to literally anyone else.

      If I remember correctly - Amar is a self-described “liberal” who is a ginormous dipshit and he just happens to agree with every dogshit GOP SCOTUS ruling ever.

      -–

      Edit

      I forgot something. Here’s the link - if you want to annoy yourself. https://ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-awful-tv-shows

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        A good reminder is that Mulaney is a recovering cocaine addict. It wouldn’t be out the picture if he got into this stuff while absolutely out of his mind, and now has to justify it in sobriety.

    • ephemeral [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      many comedians have successfully pivoted to more dramatic careers… though I suspect John Mulaney will not be one of them