The mayor of Portage, Indiana, steered over $1 million in city contracts to a truck dealership, which then wrote him a $13,000 check.

The conservatives on SCOTUS—with extensive experience in being lavished with gifts after favorable rulings—say this is very legal and very cool.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-108_8n5a.pdf

@maxkennerly how is this anything other than quid pro quo, post facto. Isn't that the very definition of bribe? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bribe
Definition of BRIBE

Definition of 'bribe' by Merriam-Webster