Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal?

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• Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Presidential immunity only extends to official acts see here. That said, its so poorly defined as to be irrelevant at the moment.

  Still, I suspect distributing checks from the federal government that was not appropriated by congress would very much fail to qualify.

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  • ulkesh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When there are no consequences, everything is an official act.

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