The 2013 traffic-scandal case gives the U.S. Supreme Court a fresh chance to consider narrowing the definition of public corruption
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to hear a New Jersey case about traffic as political payback is a likely effort by the high court to limit prosecutors’ ability to bring corruption cases against public officials without straightforward bribery or kickback schemes, legal experts say.
Nearly six years after the scandal known as Bridgegate, its traffic-jam plot seems relatively quaint. But the underlying questions of the line between distasteful and illegal political conduct is one the high court has taken up in recent...
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