He may be an operative, or he may just be blackmailed/in their pocket. Too often people still underestimate what 30 pieces of silver can buy. It's way easier to pay off fools than to train operatives. Likewise way, WAY easier to get to a judge, a singular human, than to pass legislation. Thus why the swamp gop senate keeps trying to snake charm us with "muh conservative judges." How many of those judges will wilt when a deep state-controlled govt of the future demands a certain result?