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The Campaign Legal Center’s Brendan Fisher writes, “It is a common refrain that cases like Citizens United allow for ‘legalized bribery.’ But few argue that the U.S. Supreme Court has literally legalized pay-to-play politics; such descriptions are usually shorthand for the systemic ways that big money in elections has tilted the political system toward the donor class. Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, however, is hoping that Citizens United did, in fact, legalize bribery.”