They’re not members of Congress, you see, and therefore not exempt from the insider-trading laws like our get-rich-quick “public servants” are when trading stocks and bonds on their inside knowledge of impending new regulations they themselves often have written.
But if the lawyer for the Jantzens is on the ball, he’ll raise that issue forthwith—via a written news release and an in-person presser with the usually-snoozing news media and subsequently with the federal court. About time somebody did besides author Peter Schweizer.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I am afraid that this line of defense, while morally strong, will not cut the mustard with the judge.
Judges deal with laws, not exactly justice.
Juries are supposed to deal with laws, but they mostly deal with emotion, which good lawyers use to try to bend them to the defendant’s will. If more people knew about the hypocrisy going on with this subject, even judges might find it hard to ignore.