Supreme Court’s Message to Federal Judges: Don’t Reinstate Officials Fired by Trump

Harry Sandick and Caitlyn WiglerOn Might 22, 2025, the Supreme Courtroom endorsed the “fraudulent inducement” idea of wire fraud in Kousisis v. United States, departing from its current pattern of narrowing the scope of broadly worded prison statutes, together with the wire fraud statute. This choice seems to permit the federal government to acquire a conviction even the place the defendant didn’t intend to trigger financial hurt to their counterparty, as long as the defendant made materials false statements as a way to acquire property from one other.