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 Oh really?
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