Stephen Hardwick: This headline is misleading. Federal law doesn’t “allow” gifts to state and local workers. Federal law just doesn’t prohibit it. In Ohio (and my guess, most places), it’s still illegal under state law for state government workers to get paid for doing our job by anyone except our employer.

This headline is misleading. Federal law doesn’t “allow” gifts to state and local workers. Federal law just doesn’t prohibit it. In Ohio (and my guess, most places), it’s still illegal under state law for state government workers to get paid for doing our job by anyone except our employer.

Corruption Law Allows Gifts to State and Local Officials, Supreme Court Ruleswww.nytimes.com The court, which has limited the sweep of several anti-corruption laws, distinguished after-the-fact rewards from before-the-fact bribes.

(That was a gift link.) The headline also shows that sometimes, a double negative can’t accurately be converted into single positive.

Does the ruling especially apply to supreme court justices?

SCOTUS justices are especially not prohibited from getting people to pay them for doing the job they already get paid for.

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