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A small cadre of temporarily empowered men and women from the White House, Treasury, FHFA, the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, each one with a different mission and role to play, after careful deliberations and planning, put into a play a set of premeditated plans to contractually bind the GSEs in a seemingly interminable conservatorship and to contractually transfer all the GSEs net income and capital reserves into the US Treasury in perpetuity, or until Congress came up with a plan to reform the GSEs in a manner that favored and protected private capital.
GSE shareholders were never included in the deliberations and have never been a consideration in these deliberations and plans. This cadre views the GSE shareholders indifferently and regards them in action as insignificant and discardable.
The ordinary, small shareholder is powerless against the cadre located in high places in the Executive and Legislative branches of government. The only recourse these shareholders have had is dependence on the financially stronger GSE shareholders to appeal to the Judicial branch of government by filing civil lawsuits against the main agencies and players of the cadre who signed the constraining contracts and amendments - FHFA, US Treasury and the US.
The US Courts, under Article III of the Constitution, are supposed to administer justice fairly and impartially, within the jurisdiction established by the Constitution and Congress. Even so, approaching the federal courts by suing agencies of the federal government and the US itself is an uphill battle. It is not easy to convince the government to judge itself fairly and impartially as the Lamberth decision shows. Yet, there is a small light at the end of the tunnel.
That small light may enlarge with the inauguration of a new president and a new White House administration. How large and bright that light will become is unknown at the moment, even though positive anticipations are running high.
If the district, federal, appeals and Supreme courts of the US and the new administration does not make a difference by rendering fair and impartial justice in these shareholder cases, the remaining options for achieving justice may not be reason, deliberation, negotiation and compromise.
