The ink is barely dry on the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court the last week of June, but Hunter Biden’s legal team is already availing itself of one of the rulings in an effort to have the First Son’s convictions in his Delaware gun trial overturned.
On Wednesday, the high court issued its opinion in Snyder v. United States, a case involving the former mayor of Portage, Indiana, who accepted a $13,000 check from a trucking company after the city awarded two contracts to the company for the purchase of its trucks. At issue was whether the statutory section under which Snyder was charged and convicted applied to gratuities (gifts after the fact) or solely to bribes. In holding that the particular statute at issue only applied to bribes, the court wasn’t absolving Snyder of shady behavior. Rather, it was saying if Congress wants that section to cover gratuities as well as…
