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In politics and government, a spoils system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends , and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party.
In United States jurisdictions, obstruction of justice refers to a number of offenses that involve unduly influencing, impeding, or otherwise interfering with the justice system, especially the legal and procedural tasks of prosecutors, investigators, or other government officials.
The national quota system for issuing tickets was previously scrapped from police performance contracts, but individual forces may still impose their own quota system. In 2009 Guusje ter Horst told Members of the States General of the Netherlands (parliament) that the justice ministry had agreed that the police should raise € 831m through fines.
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. [1]
The activities that constitute illegal corruption differ depending on the country or jurisdiction. For instance, some political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some cases, government officials have broad or ill-defined powers, which make it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal actions.
The Canadian leader announced various measures, including the appointment of a fentanyl czar and the deployment of personnel to the border, to stop the flow of the deadly opioid to the U.S.
Four years of Biden-Harris open borders and it's time for Trump to fix the crisis of illegal immigration. One way to do it is to tax the money they send back to their home countries.
The claim: Video shows Somali 'illegal immigrants' lining up for driver's licenses in Florida so they can vote. An Aug. 3 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a long line of people ...