The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat

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The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat - Lemmy.World

This is quid pro quo being ruled as NOT bribery because it comes to the person on the backside of the favor. This is almost certainly to do with the majority of the court recently being outed about the amount of high value bribes gifts/vacations they are getting from “friends”.
“We realized that people now knew the things we constantly do wrong, so we made them not wrong anymore.”
“We’ve investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing”