More generally, this kind of legal corruption is an obvious and yet unacknowledged flaw in representative democracy.
By obvious, I mean in the game theory sense i.e a system of selfish rational humans acting under the rules of "democracy".
The U.S. system has some factors which make it worse e.g. "first past the post" voting leads to a two-party system from which the electorate cannot break out.
By obvious, I mean in the game theory sense i.e a system of selfish rational humans acting under the rules of "democracy".
The U.S. system has some factors which make it worse e.g. "first past the post" voting leads to a two-party system from which the electorate cannot break out.