Government
Jul. 12, 2016
Court was right despite disturbing facts
Gift limits, a strong, independent enforcement agency and reasonable limited exceptions to gift-limit laws, such as exist in California, would have obviated the need to convict Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell of federal bribery laws. By Rebecca Olson and Russell Miller
The public's interest in honest government appeared to take a significant blow when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell. In McDonnell v. United States, 2016 DJDAR 6444 (June 27, 2016), writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice John Roberts stated there is no question that McDonnell and his wife acted in a distasteful and inappropriate manner by a...
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