Patrick Byrne built a reputation on claiming inside knowledge of conspiracies few people ever verified. On Friday, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled his biggest claim yet, an $800 million bribery scheme between Hunter Biden and Iran, never happened. The ruling cost Byrne $1.7 million. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, a Reagan appointee, entered a default judgment against Byrne after years of litigation. The case traces back to a 2023 interview in which Byrne claimed Hun

The Supreme Court Every federal judge in the United States operates under a binding code of conduct. Every single one, except nine. The nine people with the most power in the American legal system have spent the better part of two centuries answering to no one but themselves, and the country is only recently, reluctantly, starting to reckon with what that actually means. The Supreme Court had been the only court in the country without a binding ethics code. That changed in No