Now, under the Roberts Court's doctrine, even the basic contribution limits -- which prevent individual donors from giving more than $5,200 to any candidate for federal office -- are at risk as impermissible government efforts to regulate "influence" and "access".
Other proponents of a constitutional deus ex machina have offered a more modest interpretation of the public debt clause, under which only actual default (as opposed to any action that merely increases the risk of default) is impermissible.
When the government has access to such information, there is always a risk that it will exploit the information for a broad range of impermissible purposes.
The main exception is when just combatants are acting impermissibly, for example by pursuing their just goals by impermissible means.
This is completely impermissible.
Would you call that impermissible?
That airfare is the "impermissible benefit".
"Such impermissible and repeated contacts," the report states, "create conflicts of interests for subordinate employees who must choose to either please a superior or run the risk of facing that superior's displeasure and the possible consequences of that displeasure".
Given this construction, the statute is impermissible.
