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Right? We get so caught up in the details and whether it' legal or not we lost sight of whether it's fucking OK or not in general
Selecting people for a job who are diametrically opposed to the basic functions of that job.  The traditional Republican way. >

We culturally just need to start being more strict with these kinds of things. It's absolutely ridiculous that stuff like this goes unpunished, and the defense is always like "Technically, there isn't specifically a rule that says dogs can't play basketball!". Fuck that, in older republics/democracies clearly violating the spirit of the law would get your hands nailed to a wall, even if it was technically legal to do so.
Hiring people to sabotage an officially created government position could easily be considered defrauding the US or any other number of charges. But we're too wussy to do that.