Name: SCOTUS Effectively Legalizes Bribery of Politicians...AGAIN
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But everything you want to know about the Supreme Court can be learned from the decision they did release today, and later from the decision they accidentally released today.

You see for a brief moment today, the court posted a copy of a decision that appears set to allow emergency room doctors in

Idaho to perform abortions in certain situations.

They quickly took it down and we're going to have more on that later.

But the first decision, the one they actually meant to actually put up, and they read, the one they released on purpose.

It effectively legalized blatant public corruption, again.

Chris Hayes is 100% correct in his interpretation of a recent Supreme

Court ruling that further weakens laws on government corruption and bribery.

And it involves a case with a former mayor of a small town in

Indiana who appeared to be engaging in a corruption scheme and was actually federally convicted of doing so.

Now before I get to those details and before we get to some insane video on this, Cenk, this is what the Supreme Court has been doing for decades, weakening corruption laws.

Yeah, they've done it in countless instances, not only just Citizens

United, before that, and I wrote about this injustice that's coming in Baladi and in Buckley v Vallejo.

So they just keep taking away more and more restrictions, so yeah, just go and spend the money, spend the money, billions of dollars, who cares, right?

And there's the legalized corruption, which is campaign donations.

And then there is this now, out and out bribery.

Governor McDonnell in Virginia, the Enron case, this case, the Supreme Court's saying, no, you could actually bribe them.

You could actually just give them money and gifts.

And depending on when you give it, we'll say that, no, it was before, no, it was after, no, it was during, nothing's ever corruption.

So this is brazen, this is just cash for a contract.

But the timing, they're so concerned about the timing, Anna.

So let's get to those details because I can't even believe that they passed down this ruling with a straight face.

But at the center of that case was a former mayor of Portage, Indiana.

And as I mentioned earlier, a federal jury actually found him guilty of breaking federal bribery laws.

Now Snyder was charged under a federal bribery law that makes it a crime for state and local officials to corruptly solicit or accept anything of value from any person intending to be influenced or rewarded for an official act.

So federal officials argue that the statute also applies to what's referred to as gratuities.

And that's when the money is exchanged after the political favor is done, okay?

All right, so here's Chris Hayes explaining the context of Snyder v the United States.

United States and involves this man, James Snyder, the former Republican mayor of

And as the Chicago Tribune reports, it was Christmas time 2013 and

The IRS was after him for a significant tax debt.

And on top of that, he had holiday spending to account for.

Great Lakes Peterbilt, the local truck dealership he'd helped to win two lucrative city contracts.

That's what I'm here for, the mayor told the owners.

Snyder a check for $13,000 saying it was for consulting that was never fully performed.

Snyder was indicted on federal corruption charges back in 2016.

And after a lengthy back and forth and multiple trials, he was found guilty in 2021.

He argues the $13,000 was just a fee for his consulting work, though what that consulting work is a little unclear.

What's more, it couldn't possibly be a bribe.

This is what he argued before the Supreme Court of the United States.

It couldn't be a bribe, you see, because he received the money after the contracts were allocated.

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Wow, okay, so I mean, you know what this does, right?

This further opens the floodgates for corruption.

Among elected lawmakers because who's to say that a lawmaker or a candidate running for office, you hit up a company that you want to get money from after the fact.

Hey, if I win, no bid contract for your company, and I'm expecting on some funds after the fact.

And that's not breaking any laws because now the Supreme Court has set a precedent indicating that if the bribe comes after, then it's okay, totally okay.

So guys, they don't even have to have the conversation ahead of time.

Because once the Supreme Court makes this legal, which they now have, everybody's just going to start doing it.

And it'll become a de facto way of bribing our officials.

So what will happen is, and remember why I tell you there's so many old politicians, because they get good return on investment on them, the donors give them money.

And they know these guys deliver, they always deliver for us, and they always screw over the voters, and that's why they keep giving them money.

So now, they'll start giving them money after they're out of office, or maybe right after they made the decision, it doesn't matter.

And so they'll give them in the beginning tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions of dollars, right?

And it'll become a thing like, once you after the vote, they go collect their money, right?

And so then the politicians know when you rule for X, Y, or Z, you're going to get paid.

And by the way, there's already a definition of this that exists.

And that's why the Supreme Court ruled this way.

It's for all the ex-politicians and the ex-generals, that's super interesting.

But also remember, guys, there's super rich donors that are paying for all the vacations, the homes, and all the gratuities for the Supreme Court justices.

I'm sure that Supreme Court justices like Justice Thomas,

Justice Alito, I mean, those two have been in the news for years for accepting lucrative gifts, luxurious gifts.

Court justices who are conservative ruled in favor of tossing out this federal conviction for Snyder.

Only the three liberal justices voted against tossing out the conviction.

So what's amazing is that I actually believe the MAGA voters and the Republican voters that they hate corruption.

I do believe them for a number of reasons.

But their politicians and their Supreme Court justices are the worst of the worst.

Supreme Court that in every single instance has said, bribery is awesome.

I mean, in this case, guys, you saw it with your own eyes there.

The guy comes in and says, give me the money.

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