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I think it needs to be more radical. Paid lobbying is bribery, period. It's illegal to bribe a judge or a juror. It should be similarly illegal to bribe legisla
by api 7y ago
I think it needs to be more radical. Paid lobbying is bribery, period. It's illegal to bribe a judge or a juror. It should be similarly illegal to bribe legislators. Outlaw the entire practice.
- elliekelly 7y agoImagine how outraged we’d be if we found out Federal Judges were going out to dinner with lobbyists and then having those lobbyists draft their judicial opinions for the Judge to just sign their name on without even reading it first. I don’t understand why it’s not equally outrageous that Congress does this on a daily basis. Equally nuts is the special interest group that Upcodes is battling. They draft regulations and then _charge_ the public to access the regulations that they’ve lobbied lawmakers to adopt claiming some sort of IP right over the law.
- Spooky23 7y agoOne might also be outraged if a Supreme Court justice was married to a lobbyist who was paid to advocate for positions relevant to matters on the court. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/virginia-thomas-extends-her-conservative-reach-for-2020/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/virginia-thomas-ext...