Ira Stoll: Obama Ally Wages Class Warfare

“Megarich Plaintiffs, Legally Adrift,” is the
headline The New York Times ran over the latest article by
Steven Rattner, the money manager and former Obama administration
official. As the Times headline makes clear, Rattner’s
argument concerns less the merits of the case than it does the
wealth of the plaintiffs. But as Ira Stoll observes, the fact that
one party to a legal dispute is rich should be entirely irrelevant
to the merits of the case. That’s why the classical portrait of
justice has her wearing a blindfold.

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