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

JURIST

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. 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. Of course it was contested.

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