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Early returns are in, and they indicate that the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelly v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 1565 (2020) — the so-called “Bridgegate” case — will be an effective tool for pruning the wild overgrowth that has built up around the federal fraud statutes.
