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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. § The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. United States. We even briefly chatted.

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