“No one should be allowed to buy votes.” California lawmakers say it should be illegal for wealthy people like Musk to offer big cash payments prior to elections.
When I was a kid many states banned alcohol sales on election day. This gradually died out about 10 years ago, but Washington still has a law specifically barring candidates and their organizations from buying people drinks that day. Seems incredible that bribing voters outright with money hasn’t been outlawed.
It is already explicitly illegal but right-wing courts have used “creative” interpretations of law to make it ok. Kinda like civil asset forfeiture, which is clearly and explicitly in violation of the US Constitution. Or “qualified immunity”, which was invented by the USSC with no basis in law to make it so that the government doesn’t really have to follow the US Constitution and could violate civil rights as much as they want.
FFS this isn’t already illegal???
When I was a kid many states banned alcohol sales on election day. This gradually died out about 10 years ago, but Washington still has a law specifically barring candidates and their organizations from buying people drinks that day. Seems incredible that bribing voters outright with money hasn’t been outlawed.
It is already explicitly illegal but right-wing courts have used “creative” interpretations of law to make it ok. Kinda like civil asset forfeiture, which is clearly and explicitly in violation of the US Constitution. Or “qualified immunity”, which was invented by the USSC with no basis in law to make it so that the government doesn’t really have to follow the US Constitution and could violate civil rights as much as they want.
It helps when you can put people on the court yourself, and then have it rule that presidential immunity covers your insurrection.