Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
Supreme Court apologists have weakly been trying to excuse the Court’s “gifts aren’t bribes” ruling by pointing out that it still counts as corruption if the thing of value is given in advance and if there’s an overt quid pro quo involved.
Both of those are the case here, so even by the Court’s new abysmally weak standards, this counts as official corruption.
Oh look - a blatant quid pro quo.
Supreme Court apologists have weakly been trying to excuse the Court’s “gifts aren’t bribes” ruling by pointing out that it still counts as corruption if the thing of value is given in advance and if there’s an overt quid pro quo involved.
Both of those are the case here, so even by the Court’s new abysmally weak standards, this counts as official corruption.
So who thinks anything will come of it?
Yeah - me neither.
Clarence Thomas: But she didn’t receive the pardon, her son did. So clearly not quid pro quo.
Is that cynical supposition or an actual event?
At this point in our history, the two are pretty much indistinguishable.