ETHICS REPORT. FORT. “The Secretary of Veterans Affairs’ chief of staff doctored an email and lied about the purpose of his trip to Europe with his wife that was paid for by taxpayers, according to an investigation by the agency’s inspector general.” PROBE CALL. HILL. “A left-leaning government organization on Wednesday called for an investigation into Housing […]
Month: February 2018
Good morning, political law links
CU AND CHANGE. OS. “Eight years ago, the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC defined the modern federal campaign finance system. How did we get there, and how has the system continued to evolve?” NEW NOMINEE. HILL. “President Trump on Wednesday nominated a new director for the federal government’s ethics office, several months after […]
Political Law Links of the Day
CREW ALLEGATIONS. FB. “Mainstream media outlets rarely identify activists tied to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) as working for the leftwing activist organization that raises money from a secretive dark money network of liberal donors, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.” OVERBY ON THE SYSTEM. NPR. “After the Watergate scandals in […]