Opinion: Supreme Court is taking away tools prosecutors use to fight corruption

Jennifer Rodgers is a former federal prosecutor, the former executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School, and a CNN legal analyst. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.

Unanimous agreement on any issue with political undertones seems elusive these days, to put it mildly. But the Supreme Court managed to find unanimity last week, when all nine justices agreed to overturn the federal fraud convictions of two members of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration for their roles in the Bridgegate scandal.

Jennifer RodgersUnfortunately, where the justices found common cause seems to be in a distrust of prosecutorial discretion and an acceptance of dishonesty in politics as the status quo. Those views, coupled with an extremely narrow reading of the statute, have led a unanimous court to continue its yearslong trend of diminishing the power of federal prosecutors to fight corruption, which is highly regrettable to those who care about honest government.

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