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

JURIST

James Snyder, the former mayor of Portage Indiana accused of having criminally solicited a payment in this case, seemed calm and upbeat. I feel like we’re in a Senate room drafting language [of a statute]. “Corruptly” as a consciousness of wrongdoing has never been the mens rea for bribery.

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