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SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute

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That question kept Colleen Sinzdak, counsel for the US government, busy for almost all of her argument before the US Supreme Court earlier today. This case asks the Supreme Court to decide whether 18 U.S.C. § Her response: a person behaves corruptly when they know they are doing wrong. I attended oral arguments in the case Snyder v.

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