CommentaryIt’s time to specifically outlaw invitations to foreign election meddlingBy CREATORS SYNDICATEhome/Opinion/Analysis/It’s time to specifically outlaw invitations to foreign election meddlingFROM THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHAs if to remind us how far US politics has strayed from normalcy, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is calling for legislation to prohibit American presidential candidates from seeking political assistance from foreign governments. Congress should immediately do what, in normal times, wouldn’t need to be done and specify that any American politician who seeks domestic political help from a foreign government is violating federal law. But that didn’t stop Trump’s lawyer from trying to revive the controversy — with the help of a foreign government. The fact that there’s even a question about whether the Trump campaign broke the law by publicly asking for and receiving foreign political help in 2016 is in itself a problem. The House should pass a clear prohibition of such invitations to foreign meddling, and dare the Republican-controlled Senate not to pass it.

Source: Manila Times May 20, 2019 17:38 UTC