Supreme Court Won’t Take Ex-Assembly Speaker Silver’s Case

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves U.S. District Court after he was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison in the corruption case that drove him from power, in the Manhattan borough of New York, N.Y., on July 20, 2020. John Minchillo/File/AP Photo

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is declining to take up the case of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is serving a 6 1/2-year prison sentence after being convicted in a corruption case.

The high court on Monday declined to take up the Democrat’s appeal.