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This Supreme Court has redefined the meaning of corruption

  • Written by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Professor of Law, Stetson University
imageRecent Supreme Court decisions have made it so that bribing a politician must be cartoonishly blatant to qualify as corruption.DigitalVision Vectors via Getty

The U.S. Supreme Court is deregulating corruption, with arguably grim consequences for American democracy.

The latest example of this troubling trend was the case known as Snyder v. United...

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