As the Court said in Buckley, "the giving and taking of bribes deal with only the most blatant and specific attempts of those with money to influence governmental action". Any regulation must instead target what we have called "quid pro quo" corruption or its appearance.
The Court stated that "making criminal the giving and taking of bribes deals with only the most blatant and specific attempts of those with money to influence governmental action". In other words, the Court said that its view of corruption in the context of campaign finance laws went well beyond quid pro quo transactions.
In his first speech in the role, Tan referred to the recent mass shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue, allegedly by a white supremacist, as one of the most blatant forms of racism "with resulting devastating consequences".
Dane Coles was the next to escape with just a penalty, this with the most blatant offence of the lot – late, off-side, high and without arms on Conor Murray.
This was the exhibit that in past years was fraught with the most blatant simplifications — and the new one is no different.
To wit: the "Graduation" song with the most "blatant hit-recordness," as Mr. West called it, is "Good Life," a relaxed, airy, radio-friendly collaboration with this year's cameo king, T-Pain.
Mr. Kendall has memorably described the vulgarity and the spectacle: "Analogies have been proposed with cinema in the golden age of Hollywood or television in our own time, but both cases fall short of the mark, missing the extraordinary fusion of the highest artistic standards with the most blatant and officially sanctioned vice".
Widely considered by music critics and listeners alike to be the most radio-friendly track on Graduation, West defines the studio album's third single "Good Life" as the song with the most "blatant hit-recordness".
A million votes were thrown out — and the Electoral Complaints Commission only dealt with the clumsiest, most blatant frauds.
