You can now give gifts and money to elected officials as long as you don’t explicitly mention what you want them to do for you. The law was already well undermined with Citizen United, but now the only thing that is essentially still illegal is the proverbial suitcase with money being handed over in exchange for services, and I’m sure that’ll go at some stage as well.
Yeah just least year when they ruled on Citizens United. Oh…that was 15 years ago. Fuck, we’re so cooked
They went further last year in Snyder vs United States.
You can now give gifts and money to elected officials as long as you don’t explicitly mention what you want them to do for you. The law was already well undermined with Citizen United, but now the only thing that is essentially still illegal is the proverbial suitcase with money being handed over in exchange for services, and I’m sure that’ll go at some stage as well.