alt Hacker NewsIANAL, IIRC: SCOTUS has very narrowly defined bribery as explicit quid pro quo. And sometimes not even then.
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roughly • yesterday at 9:22 PM
Trevor Noah pretty much nailed this in the first Trump admin:
IANAL, IIRC: SCOTUS has very narrowly defined bribery as explicit quid pro quo. And sometimes not even then.
Trevor Noah pretty much nailed this in the first Trump admin:
You recall correctly.
And they did so, so they could take bribes with no consequences as long as they take them the right way.