Federal law prohibits naming a staff of people.
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/29/600
Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
“favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate”
So agreeing with a candidate is a felony? This entire law is a hole big enough to fly a Saturn 5 through sideways.
Example
“John and I agree on X. The country would benefit from having a guy like Jon as our Y”.
“Bob and I agree on X. The country would benefit from having someone like Bob as our Y” instead of the garbage we have.”
Good luck trying to convict on that statement.
Thanks for taking the time to look that up, I was pretty sure that was the case.
Marko
Then with all due respect, why is apparently no one concerned with Donald Trump, who if I am not mistaken, didn’t just float the idea of I believe it was Carl Ichan as Treasury Secretary or some such thing, but allegedly offered him the job if elected. If they are not going after Trump for that, they won’t go after Cruz for this.
Which the supposed “brilliant Constitution and LAW expert” apparently doesn’t know.
Its only illegal if the job offer is made as a reward for political support. In other words, Cruz is just fine to tell people that he thinks Sessions would make a great Homeland Security Secretary. What would be illegal is if he said to Sessions, endorse me and I will appoint you homeland security secretary. Basically this is prohibiting bribing with political jobs.
The citation is bogus. For the law to apply a prosecutor would have prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there had been a quid pro quo of Cruz making a promise of the appointment to Sessions in return for his political support.