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Comment by specialist

12 hours ago

IANAL, IIRC: SCOTUS has very narrowly defined bribery as explicit quid pro quo. And sometimes not even then.

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RajT88  11 hours ago

You recall correctly.

And they did so, so they could take bribes with no consequences as long as they take them the right way.

roughly  10 hours ago

Trevor Noah pretty much nailed this in the first Trump admin:

https://x.com/thedailyshow/status/1177221786720559105

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