Supreme Court legalizes bribery when you do it right [View all]
This Snyder ruling is the final piece of evidence I need that this Court can’t be saved.
By Charles P. Pierce
PUBLISHED: JUN 26, 2024 7:35 PM EDT
... In Snyder v. United States, the carefully manufactured conservative majority maintained its unshakable fealty to corporate oligarchy by completing the work of legalizing bribery that began with the decision in Citizens United. The decision, written and delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is a clumsy work of intellectual gymnastics and an equally clumsy attempt by the majority to pretend that it lives in a land beyond all human frailty. That there are at least two justices in the majority who have dogs in this fight makes Snyder the final bit of evidence that this Supreme Court is irredeemably corrupt ...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s majority opinion contains ideas that can stand proudly in line with Justice Anthony Kennedy’s immortal “We now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption” from Citizens United. He drew a distinction between “bribes” and “gratuities” that must seem absurd to the ghosts of long-dead Chicago aldermen and Massachusetts state representatives ...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61429425/snyder-supreme-court-ruling/
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