Document ID: ./input/supremecourt_opinions/opinions/21pdf/21-12_m6hn.pdf
Page Number: 42.0

Cite as:  596 U. S. ____ (2022) 

15 

KAGAN, J., dissenting 

at a time when he can return the favor—by a vote, a con-
tract,  an  appointment.    It  takes  no  political  genius  to  see 
the heightened risk of corruption—the danger of “I’ll make
you  richer  and  you’ll  make  me  richer”  arrangements  be-
tween donors and officeholders.  Section 304 has guarded 
against that threat for two decades, but no longer.  In dis-
carding  the  statute,  the  Court  fuels  non-public-serving,
self-interested governance.  It injures the integrity, both ac-
tual  and  apparent,  of  the  political  process.  I  respectfully 
dissent.