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The Gutter Oracle

Words: 3147 · Source Novel:: Phosphor Fires in the Gutter

Supreme Justice Julian Croft delivers the landmark majority opinion in *Rico v. United States*, gutting the vagueness doctrine and handing the Department of Justice a nearly infinite prosecutorial weapon. As he pens the final paragraph, he feels a cold, godlike ecstasy, realizing the law has shed its pretense of fairness to become pure, malleable power. That night, a dying informant in the rainy slums of Arcadia whispers a name that sparks a monstrous idea.