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Supreme Court Justices Compare Bribes to Taking a Teacher to Cheesecake Factory

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  • Supreme Court, which agreed to review an appeals court decision affirming the 2021 conviction of the former mayor of Portage - transforming the small-time corruption case into a national issue that has the potential to legalize corporations rewarding public officials in exchange for lucrative government favors. ...
  • The Supreme Court has consistently worked to narrow the definition of corruption, but the timing of the case and its subject matter is interesting: Over the past year, the court has faced unprecedented scrutiny over revelations that justices have received and failed to disclose luxury gifts ...

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    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Supreme Court, which agreed to review an appeals court decision affirming the 2021 conviction of the former mayor of Portage - transforming the small-time corruption case into a national issue that has the potential to legalize corporations rewarding public officials in exchange for lucrative government favors. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (government,court)
        • (supreme_court,small-time)
        • (supreme_court,potential)
        • (government,potential)
        • (government,small-time)
        • (supreme_court,portage)
        • (government,portage)
        • (supreme_court,court)
        • (government,mayor)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Supreme Court, which agreed to review an appeals court decision affirming the 2021 conviction of the former mayor of Portage - transforming the small-time corruption case into a national issue that has the potential to legalize corporations rewarding public officials in exchange for lucrative government favors ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,portage)
        • (mayor,court)
        • (mayor,small-time)
        • (mayor,potential)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Supreme Court, which agreed to review an appeals court decision affirming the 2021 conviction of the former mayor of Portage - transforming the small-time corruption case into a national issue that has the potential to legalize corporations rewarding public officials in exchange for lucrative government favors.. . The Supreme Court has consistently worked to narrow the definition of corruption, but the timing of the case and its subject matter is interesting: Over the past year, the court has faced unprecedented scrutiny over revelations that justices have received and failed to disclose luxury gifts ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (government,supreme_court)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • As The Lever recently pointed out, high-profile corruption cases in other states have been put on hold as prosecutors wait to see how the Supreme Court rules in Snyder v. United States.. . On Monday, in a debate peppered with hypothetical meals to Cheesecake Factory, gift baskets, and Starbucks gift cards, justices appeared poised to side with the convicted Indiana mayor ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (supreme_court,cheesecake_factory)
        • (supreme_court,prosecutors)
        • (supreme_court,peppered)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The Supreme Court has consistently worked to narrow the definition of corruption, but the timing of the case and its subject matter is interesting: Over the past year, the court has faced unprecedented scrutiny over revelations that justices have received and failed to disclose luxury gifts ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (government,court)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • As the justices devolved into semantics, Sinzdak said, "What you're all talking about is these fringe cases," adding those cases would be "really hard for the government to show consciousness of wrongdoing." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (government,semantics)
        • (government,sinzdak)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . Later on, Sinzdak explained, "I guess I'm not kind of including in here the kind of apple for teacher and the hypotheticals that you see in petitioner's brief ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (government,sinzdak)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • On Monday, in a debate peppered with hypothetical meals to Cheesecake Factory, gift baskets, and Starbucks gift cards, justices appeared poised to side with the convicted Indiana mayor.. . Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the facts of this case were great for the government, but was hesitant to subject 19 million state and local officials to the law, which has been on the books for decades ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,starbucks)
        • (government,mayor)
        • (government,starbucks)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "Counsel, how does anyone in the real world know the line." Justice Neil Gorsuch mused to Colleen Sinzdak, the lawyer arguing for the government. "Put aside billionaires and hospitals. Deal with small gifts with teachers, doctors, police officers, all the time.". ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (government,police)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Later on, Sinzdak explained, "I guess I'm not kind of including in here the kind of apple for teacher and the hypotheticals that you see in petitioner's brief. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (government,petitioner)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • On Monday, in a debate peppered with hypothetical meals to Cheesecake Factory, gift baskets, and Starbucks gift cards, justices appeared poised to side with the convicted Indiana mayor. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,cheesecake_factory)
        • (government,peppered)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • In 2012, James Synder was elected mayor of the Northwest Indiana town of just under 38,000 people. Synder, who was struggling to keep his own business afloat and was behind on taxes, oversaw the bidding process for a contract to buy new garbage trucks for the town ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,synder)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • In 2019, Synder found his second term cut prematurely when a federal jury convicted of him of bribery. Although he appealed and was granted a new trial, the former mayor was convicted again in March 2021 and sentenced to 21 months in prison. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,synder)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The Supreme Court, amid an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy pertaining to unreported gifts to justices, debated on Monday whether a contractor making a $13,000 gratuity to a politician is similar to taking a teacher to Cheesecake Factory.. . In 2012, James Synder was elected mayor of the Northwest Indiana town of just under 38,000 people ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,cheesecake_factory)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The Supreme Court, amid an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy pertaining to unreported gifts to justices, debated on Monday whether a contractor making a $13,000 gratuity to a politician is similar to taking a teacher to Cheesecake Factory. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,supreme_court)
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        • (mayor,pertaining)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • In 2012, James Synder was elected mayor of the Northwest Indiana town of just under 38,000 people. Synder, who was struggling to keep his own business afloat and was behind on taxes, oversaw the bidding process for a contract to buy new garbage trucks for the town. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (mayor,taxes)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • As The Lever recently pointed out, high-profile corruption cases in other states have been put on hold as prosecutors wait to see how the Supreme Court rules in Snyder v ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (supreme_court,the_lever)
        • (supreme_court,high-profile)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . On Monday, in a debate peppered with hypothetical meals to Cheesecake Factory, gift baskets, and Starbucks gift cards, justices appeared poised to side with the convicted Indiana mayor. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (supreme_court,starbucks)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Supreme Court Justices Compare Bribes to Taking a Teacher to Cheesecake Factory. . The Supreme Court, amid an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy pertaining to unreported gifts to justices, debated on Monday whether a contractor making a $13,000 gratuity to a politician is similar to taking a teacher to Cheesecake Factory ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (supreme_court,cheesecake_factory)