Month: June 2009

Public Integrity Update

What’s new at the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section?  Some staff are being reassigned, according to this Post report. Meanwhile, the work of the section has slowed as the entire trial team in the Stevens case remains the subject of an investigation ordered by a federal judge and another by the department’s Office of […]

The Reform Agenda of The New York Times

If The Times editorial board had its way, what would New York’s campaign finance and ethics regulations look like?  We have some answers, starting with today’s editorial. If Democrats want the reformer label now that they control all three branches of government, they will have to pass real reforms.