bribery,MAGA Supreme Court Justices
"The Supreme Court ruling effectively legalizes bribery...
... the Court, in a 6-3 decision split along partisan lines, legalized slightly more sophisticated or modern forms of bribery that do not include a secret meeting and an overt quid pro quo agreement before the fact..."
"The case began as a long-shot appeal by a small-town mayor who was convicted of public corruption and bribery. James Snyder, the former mayor of Portage, Indiana, was convicted in 2021 after a two-week trial in which federal prosecutors showed that he and a friend he’d appointed to a city board had improperly steered contracts worth more than $1 million to a local truck dealership. Shortly afterward, Snyder showed up at the dealership asking for money, and accepted $13,000 from the company." - The American Prospect
Follow the money with this relationship map to see to see how the billionaires who stacked the Supreme Court with right wing partisans, have now had the MAGA Supreme Court legalize bribery.
MAGA Justices redefine bribery
"The statute’s text makes it a crime for most state and local officials to “corruptly” solicit, accept, or agree to accept “anything of value” with the intent “to be influenced or rewarded in connection” with official business. That language, common sense, international norms, and certainly the word “rewarded” would suggest that Congress intended to prohibit bribes and other means of corrupting officials without regard to whether the official received a benefit before or after taking some official action."
Justice for sale
"We are already living through the aftershock of Citizens United, and the specter of dark money controlling our democracy. Moreover, thanks in part to earlier rulings by the Court, the number of official corruption cases for bribery, graft, and conflicts of interest brought by the federal government have dropped steadily over the last 35 years, after peaking in 1998, when just 906 defendants across the country were prosecuted." - The American Prospect
TakeAway: Bribery favors the rich. Vote for President Biden and Democrats to restore honor to the justice system and reform the MAGA Supreme Court.
Deepak
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