Supreme Court overturns ex-mayor’s bribery conviction, narrowing the scope of public corruption law
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The high court’s 6-3 opinion along ideological lines found the law criminalizes bribes given before an official act, not rewards handed out after.
Eg: it's ok to give Supreme Court Justices money after they rule in your favor because it's normal and ok to regularly hand them amounts much larger than their salary. The Democrats on the court were the dissenters.
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I am honestly blown away there hasn't been any assassination attempts on any justices recently. They have record low public approval, never emding corruption scandals, and have been throwing out all these rulings that are blatantly undermining the rule of law.
Only one that I'm aware of
That grand jury should have refused to indict.
I mean wouldn't people who are willing to break the law to kill not care much about other laws?