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Breyer Turns Kim Kardashian Into Oral Argument Hypo -- Weep For The Republic

Kim Kardashian made it to the highest level of government.

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I’m asking you, if the local person comes to the door and says, dear Miss Kardashian, I am your local jewelry cleaner. Please give me your jewelry. She does. And that’s not fraud. He wanted to get the jewelry. He tired to get the — he also believed that the friend had just loaned it for the evening, that she’s triple insured, that she won’t even lose any money because the publicity will be worth it…

Now, my question is: There’s the statute. I would have always thought from first year of law school, criminal law, that that was fraud, but perhaps I was wrong. So I would like you to explain it.

— Noted robbery victim Justice Stephen Breyer in this morning’s Shaw v. United States oral argument. Justice Breyer seemed critical of Shaw’s argument that lying to a bank to steal someone else’s money can’t be fraud on the bank if the bank itself didn’t stand to lose from the scheme, and he decided to prove his E! News credentials while grilling Shaw’s lawyer.

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