“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.
It’s pretty obviously illegal if you interpret rules. But the conservative supreme court just finds weird alternative interpretations. So writing a law that directly states it means the supreme court cant really interpret thenselves out of it.
Isn’t this shit already illegal, but the real issue is you can’t enforce the law against the ultra-rich?
It’s pretty obviously illegal if you interpret rules. But the conservative supreme court just finds weird alternative interpretations. So writing a law that directly states it means the supreme court cant really interpret thenselves out of it.
They just rule that “spending money” is speech.
That makes the law an unconstitutional infringement on the first amendment.