Justice Jackson slams fellow justices' "absurd" logic in bribery case dissent

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is calling out her fellow justices for enabling grifters.

At the end of last week, the Supreme Court continued its assault on public corruption laws with a Thursday ruling that provides a roadmap to graft.

Interpreting a federal statute that prohibits public officials from accepting bribes, the majority held in Snyder v. United States that, so long as a gift is given as a reward after the official performs the corrupt act, no crime occurs.

Snyder is just the latest in a long line of cases issued by Chief Justice John Roberts’ court that have gutted public corruption cases. In recent years, the court has also cut back on the application of corruption statutes in several cases. As Jackson noted in her Snyder dissent, this “absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today’s Court could love.”

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