When Was Bribery of Politicians Legalized In America?

Thom Hartmann
10 min readJun 9, 2022

Why don’t we have gun control? Why are the rich getting richer and the rest of us are in the dust? Why won’t Congress act on global warming?

It’s because our Supreme Court, or, more correctly, five Republicans on our Supreme Court, legalized bribery.

Not the bribery of store clerks or bank tellers or people who work for airlines. You go to jail…

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Thom Hartmann

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