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“Can Robert Menendez’s Bribery Conviction Survive an Appeal?”

NYT:

After Senator Robert Menendez was found guilty of bribery and corruption charges, his lawyers said they would appeal his conviction aggressively and expected that he would be vindicated.

Defense lawyers make such claims routinely, but in the realm of federal corruption cases, there has been some reason to be optimistic. The U.S. Supreme Court, in rulings since 2010, has narrowed the legal definition of corruption, resulting in a number of convictions of political figures in New York and elsewhere being overturned.

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“The Supreme Court Might Be on the Brink of Making Corruption Easier – Again”

Important article by Michael Linhorst in The New Republic on Percoco v. United States, a political bribery case that the Supreme Court will hear this term. While the other election law cases on the docket have monopolized much of the conversation, Percoco looms just as large because the Court could potentially undermine public corruption laws. Great insights on this issue from Dean Dan Tokaji, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, and Fred Wertheimer in the article. Check it out!

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