“Baroni and Kelly used deception to reduce Fort Lee’s access lanes to the George Washington Bridge — and thereby jeopardized the safety of the town’s residents,” Kagan wrote. Kagan wrote that the outcome was dictated by the court’s previous decisions and did not require a new interpretation of the law. Kelly asked the Supreme Court to take the case last year, when she was facing a 13-month prison sentence. Kagan wrote that the consequences were more than a prank. “A purely political motive is simply not enough to criminalize even deceitful political behavior.”ADADThe case is Kelly v. U.S.

Source: Washington Post May 07, 2020 14:39 UTC