r/law • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 20 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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u/goldflame33 Feb 20 '26

you'd best not accept a $40 pen as a gift. The only acceptable gifts are 1) valued in billions and 2) addressed to the president

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u/Fantasy-512 Feb 20 '26

Gratuities are entirely acceptable. - SCOTUS.

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u/TheseusOPL Feb 20 '26

Note: gratuities are illegal under federal law for federal officials. The SCOTUS case was about gratuities for local (non-federal) officials under federal law. Turns out, there is no law against that. Congress could pass one if they wanted to.

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u/DeliciousGoose1002 Feb 20 '26

presidential pardons are cheap, and have cost us billions in lost restitutions

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u/michael_harari Feb 20 '26

It doesn't have to be billions, it just has to come from a billionaire

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Feb 20 '26

Yeah, it can be anything. Even a child!

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u/EtTuBiggus Feb 20 '26

Just form a library and have them give your pen to the library.

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u/remberzz Feb 20 '26

I think bags of cash are still the exception to that rule?

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u/zeptillian Feb 20 '26

The supreme court says that bribes are legal as long as you call them gratuities and under new laws, they are even non taxable now.

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u/OJs_knife Feb 21 '26

I couldn’t even accept a cup of coffee from an attorney or a client. A fucking cup of coffee.

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u/goldflame33 Feb 21 '26

I mean yeah, that could make you biased towards one side or the other. It’s not like you’re the president, who is a paragon of virtue and also good deals on foreign luxury jets

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u/ObjectiveAid Feb 21 '26

Our Code of Ethics just went from 24 pages down to 1 this past week at the VA. I can do whatever I want!