 On June 3, 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that judgment.Writing for the court, Justice Hugo Black viewed the amendment as more than an appropriations measure, but as one that prohibited the officials from ever holding a government job.The court held that the amendment was unconstitutional as a bill of attainder, because it took away the life, liberty or property of particularly named persons because Congress thought them guilty of conduct which deserved punishment.