Chris Geidner: Jackson, spitting fire: "Snyder’s absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today’s Court could love." Of federalism concerns: "[W]oulds, coulds, and shoulds of this nature must be addressed across the street with Congress, not in the pages of the U. S. Reports."

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The first, but not last, decision is in Murthy v. Missouri. Barrett has the 6-3 decision, reversing the 5th Circuit and holding that the plaintiffs lack standing in the case against Biden admin's social media outreach. Alito dissents, w Thomas & Gorsuch. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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The final SCOTUS decision today is Snyder v. US. Kavanaugh has the court's 6-3 decision on ideological grounds, holding that the Section 666 bribery statute does not apply to "gratuities" given for public officials' *past* acts. Jackson writes the liberals' dissent.

Here is the Snyder decision: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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Jackson, spitting fire: "Snyder’s absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today’s Court could love." Of federalism concerns: "[W]oulds, coulds, and shoulds of this nature must be addressed across the street with Congress, not in the pages of the U. S. Reports."

Gorsuch, with a rule of lenity concurrence.

With that, 11 decisions remain. The next SCOTUS decisions are expected at 10a Thursday. For now, subscribe to Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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Here's my report out of SCOTUS today — including the unexpected EMTALA case development (or not): www.lawdork.com/p/emtala-doc...

Errant SCOTUS abortion case document posting sparks confusionwww.lawdork.com The was no ruling in the EMTALA case on Wednesday, but Bloomberg reported on an "inadvertently" posted doc. Also: SCOTUS conservatives make corruption easier.

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that extra big tip for the bartender is to show appreciation for them serving my first drink, and surely is not intended to influence my future service

Gorsuch is so fucking weird.

"we really just love and respect criminal defendants so much here on the conservative majority"

Just wish that they would apply this equally. Seems to be awfully one-sided with this court in how they apply this.

Lenity for me, but not for thee

Named after the infamously lax treatment of comedian Lenity Bruce.

Lenity for all but truck drivers who are freezing to death.

Now do chevaron

Looking at this case, holy shit. The city councilman basically embezzled a million dollars and gave it to some guy's truck dealership. The truck dealers then gave him a cheque thanking him for embezzling the million dollars. And the supreme court just said "yeah that's fine"

Am I missing something or is that just legalizing kickbacks?

you’re not missing anything

You just can't prenegotiate the kickback (yet).

Seems like you could certainly sign a “consulting” contract in advance as long as you don’t spell out it’s contingent on the official act. Loving all this freedom!

Well they didn’t give him the $13k BEFORE he sent them the contract

They affirmed Snyder?!?!?! The only thing missing was a memo line saying “bribery”

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