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FTC to Judiciary: Ban Judges, Justices and Staff from Prediction Markets

Fix the Court today is calling on the federal judiciary to ban its judges, justices and staffs from participating in prediction markets.

Our request comes a day after the Senate banned its members and their staffs from prediction markets.

Currently, on both Kalshi and Polymarket users can place bets on which justice will retire next, who their replacement will be and how and handful of cases currently before the Supreme Court will turn out.

Since law clerks, judicial assistants, judges (for their cases) and justices (for theirs) know these things before the general public, they might be tempted to play the market and use that knowledge to their advantage.

But as we write in our letter, we believe that such action should be expressly prohibited in both the Supreme Court Code of Conduct and the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges.

Read our letter here.

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