This is an asinine decision that essentially makes vote buying totally legal. We see this trick with the recent Supreme Court decisions that essentially make racial gerrymandering legal again by just making the crime impossible to prove by accepting any other justification at face value.

▲ recursivecaveat 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Don't forget: you can accept bribes as long as you receive them after the fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._United_States I guess I will never pay another restaurant bill again, since any possible future "gratuity" I might award them would of course have no bearing on their past decision to bring me a plate of food.

▲ Brendinooo 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, if you really believe that, then no politician would ever be able say something like "I'll work to get you free health care".

▲ Ntrails 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah. I'm not sure how a strict reading doesn't end up with obvious policies ending up making all of the policies below "vote buying":

    - Cancel student loans
    - Reduce federal tax rates
    - Increase unemployment/pension/etc payouts

There is always a state of "this policy upside is contingent on voting for me" - though in Trumps case he is making it contingent Not on his own electoral outcome in some sense. Just messy.

	▲	Brendinooo 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		As is often the case with our commander in chief, things once expressed subtly are now expressed brazenly.