The high court’s 6-3 opinion along ideological lines found the law criminalizes bribes given before an official act, not rewards handed out after.

Eg: it’s ok to give Supreme Court Justices money after they rule in your favor because it’s normal and ok to regularly hand them amounts much larger than their salary. The Democrats on the court were the dissenters.

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    3 days ago

    This is it, exactly. They are going to start voting in a way that generates themselves the most future gifts, actual justice be damned.

    Who do you think is going to be able to afford future gifts? Because it sure as hell isn’t going to be the little guy.