SCOTUS 2024
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Illinois politicians are rejoicing.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a federal anti-bribery law does not make it a crime for state and local officials to accept a gratuity for acts that they have already taken. Writing for a six-justice majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that state and local governments already regulate gifts to officials, and so the federal law “does not supplement those state and local rules by subjecting 19 million state and local officials to up to 10 years in federal prison for accepting even commonplace gratuities.”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-limits-scope-of-anti-bribery-law/
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf
The SCOTUS has essentially overturned “Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council.”
6-3 with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson in dissent. -
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Is it immunity on all levels, or only for federal crimes?
The payoff was made while he was in office; the arrangements were made before, I think. Was signing those checks an official act?
And Biden’s taking the high road. Sometimes I wish Dems would play as dirty as the other side.
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@AdagioM said in SCOTUS 2024:
Is it immunity on all levels, or only for federal crimes?
The payoff was made while he was in office; the arrangements were made before, I think. Was signing those checks an official act?
Cohen got reimbursed in 2017, but I think the transfer of the money to Cohen's Essential Consultants LLC in October is part of the conspiracy, so that was pre-presidency.
