Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had sharp words for her conservative colleagues Wednesday in a case revolving around a public official accused of accepting a bribe.
“Snyder’s absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today’s Court could love,” the liberal jurist went on. In it, Jackson argued that the majority was wrongly preoccupied with whether it made sense for Congress to regulate gifts made to public officials because state and local governments often do so.
“Is a $100 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card for a trash collector wrongful? What about a $200 Nike gift card for a county commissioner who voted to fund new school athletic facilities? Could students take their college professor out to Chipotle for an end-of-term celebration? And if so, would it somehow become criminal to take the professor for a steak dinner?” Kavanaugh wrote.
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