Right-wing legal interests funded by the megawealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips, which effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hard-line conservative legal views.
A low level government employee would loss their job if someone takes them out to a nice dinner.
We don’t need to make it illegal, it already is.
We need to start enforcing the rules across the board.