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There are other similarly situated individuals who get off scot-free for perjury.

But there are winners and losers and winners who feel like losers and schemers who get away with their misdeeds scot-free.

The high court’s decision shocks the conscience, as it effectively allows the federal government to get away scot-free with defying a lower court judge’s order, establishing an extraordinarily dangerous precedent.

“We are now seeing what it means for the Trump Administration to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — it is letting off scot-free a deceptive company that claimed 0% APR for payday loans of 400% APR or higher, with interest disguised in fake ‘tips’ and ‘donations’ that virtually everyone was forced to pay,” Lauren Saunders, associate director at the nonprofit National Consumer Law Center, said in a statement reported by CNN.

The justices are now all on notice that if they continue to flout this federal statute, then they can get off scot-free.