The Supreme Court Says Sorry, It Just Can’t Help With Political Corruption
In overturning the criminal convictions that resulted from the Bridgegate scandal, the Court is embracing a view of the world that is unbearably bleak.
Public corruption has already had quite a year, and now the Supreme Court has given it a big boost. A unanimous Supreme Court yesterday overturned the criminal convictions that resulted from the so-called Bridgegate scandal, when then-Governor Chris Christie’s aides ordered the realignment of bridge lanes to hurt Christie’s political opponent.
In the decision, , the Court did not deny that is what happened; rather, it concluded that this conduct did not violate any federal laws. In a sense, then, the Court accepted that this sort of partisan hackery is just how politics works. Perhaps the most awful part is
