Good grief, Charlie Brown. Cutting-and-pasting documents written by lobbyists onto official notepaper with only the tiniest of editorial figleaves (eg' substituting the phrase 'those questions' for 'my questioning') seems like a case of honest services fraud to me. Being from Europe and being used to publicly financed elections in a parliamentary system, the amount of money sloshing around US politics looks like the political equivalent of crystal meth, with a correspondingly unhealthy effect on the body politic - and it's a huge problem in both parties, because it delegitimizes policies I agree with as much as ones that I don't.<p>I'm not familiar with how the constitutional federalism rules play out in regards to the behavior of public officials in the states. It seems to me that it would be tremendously difficult for someone in Oklahoma who opposed this policy to sue the attorney-General over it, for example. The collective suits of the Federal government by multiple states that have proliferated in recent years are also hard to assess legally. Can any of our resident lawyers offer an opinion on this, even a shallow one?