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BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE IN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT: FANNIEGATE

NOS. 19-422 & 19-563 In the Supreme Court of the United States PATRICK J. COLLINS, ET AL., Petitioners, v. STEVEN T. MNUCHIN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL., Respondents. ________________  STEVEN T. MNUCHIN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL., Petitioners, v. PATRICK J. COLLINS, ET AL., Respondents. ________________  On Writs of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ________________  BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF THE COURT-APPOINTED AMICUS CURIAE The Law Professor Aaron Nielson outlines a superb explanation of the Charter’s and the Conservatorship’s dynamics in his Amicus Curiae brief. By seeing it down in writing, in black and white, this scandal known as Fanniegate has laid bare a reality that has been denounced a thousand times on internet message boards. He stresses the Charter’s “special borrowing rights from Treasury §1719 (b)(c)” and linking it to their Public Mission and the ability of the enterprises to get funds on the market at