Once and for all it was a reward! not a bribe.

Besides it actually is perfectly legal to bribe, pay, romance or give a Supreme Court Justice his wieght in gold. For all other federal judges ethic laws of conflict of interests and things like the Hatch act do apply. Not so for the High Court.

It is perfectly legal to be bought off by any means imaginable if you are one of the high nine. I kid you not.