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The Supreme Court’s threshold for bribery these days is almost indistinguishable from a Thomas Nast cartoon. Corruption, in the justices’ eyes, is when a railroad tycoon hands a politician a burlap sack with a big dollar sign on it. But that extraordinarily high hurdle allegedly didn’t stop New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez from leaping over it.Federal prosecutors charged Menendez, his wife, and three New Jersey businessmen with multiple counts related to bribery schemes over the past five years.
Kevin Kennedy’s Aug. 18 Open Forum, “Despite Trump, ‘our democracy has held,’” canonizes Joe Biden and demonizes Donald Trump. He wrote, “Today, we have a president who has shown himself