Jesse Thomas was one of the interesting people I met at CongressCamp a few weeks ago. He recently posted a link to Capitol Circle, a new site that bills itself as real time Washington politics 24/7. It doesn’t disappoint (though I haven’t logged in at 2 a.m., yet). There are links for news, blogs, conversations, […]
Month: October 2009
Virginia political yard sign controversy
If you read my site during the 2008 election, you know I had a lot of stories about yard signs. Definitely small potatoes to some, but my tracking statistics showed that a lot of people came here from Google after searching for laws on yard signs. Now that the 2009 election season is in full […]
“Particularly vague” honest services fraud law update
The Times reports on the long-standing controversy over the honest services fraud law. The “honest services” law, Justice Scalia explained, says that “officeholders and employees owe a duty to act only in the best interests of their constituents and employers.” Carried to its logical extreme, he said, “it would seemingly cover a salaried employee’s phoning […]