Supreme Court conservatives OK taking bribes in order to protect themselves from, you know, their own history of taking bribes. Defend it as just gratuities.
@petergleick well it's more that regardless of whether the justices are OK with it or not, that's the law that Congress passed a while back.
And if we want the law to change we need to stop reelecting congresspeople who maintain this status quo.
@volkris That's NOT the law that Congress passed. Read the dissent, which makes clear the law is fine, the problem is the conservative justices twisted interpretation.
@petergleick sometimes the reason an argument winds up in dissent is because it's legitimately not a good argument.
So we can read the law that Congress passed. We don't have to go read the losing opinion when we can read the actual law with our own eyes:
