Corruption II

 

Anything Goes

Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose
Anything goes

Does it have to be in prose, written down, for it to be obstruction?

In its 2024 decision in Fischer v. United States, the Supreme Court, SCOTUS, opined that obstruction of justice only involves written evidence. Based on that decision SCOTUS has shown that morally it is no better than a mob boss. A mob boss depends on the absence of any written evidence of his crimes. The saying is that nothing should ever be in writing. It should not even be said if a wink or a nod will do. A crime can be committed without written evidence as far as the mob is concerned. Obstruction to commit a crime therefore can not be limited to just written evidence. Morally Al Capone was a gangster. Legally he might have been not convicted of any  crime except tax evasion, and that is not typically  considered to be the crime of an gangster. Expect that this Supreme Court might use the definition of an honest man which echoes the mob definition, that an honest man is one who stays bought, while morally the definition of a honest man is one who can’t be bought.