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28 Feb 2024, 6:40 am by Dan Bressler
‘This is because they present themselves as one unit while legally acting as separate entities,’ explained consultant Tony Williams, a principal with Jomati Consultants. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Chief Witness Against Gaetz Is Cooperating with House Ethics Investigation DNyuz – Robert Draper and Michael Schmidt (New York Times) | Published: 2/9/2024 A lawyer for the chief witness against U.S. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Derek Kilmer sees an opening to talk about continuity planning – not the well-known practice of designating a survivor who could replace the commander in chief but the lesser-known ways of the legislative branch. [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 11:14 am by Gene Takagi
While many of us are still thinking and learning about how the June 29, 2023 Supreme Court decision overturning affirmative action in college admissions will impact the broader nonprofit sector, here are thoughts from the majority opinion, dissents, and others regarding the two critical and, in my opinion, wrongfully and politically decided cases: Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal How Judges Navigate Offers of Free Lunch, Trips and NBA Tickets Bloomberg Law – Zoe Tillman (Bloomberg News) | Published: 6/25/2023 Recent controversies over perks accepted by Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have raised questions not only about the justices’ conduct off the bench and what they disclose to the public, but also about how the judiciary broadly enforces ethics. [read post]
26 Apr 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Vigilance, engagement, critical thinking: these seem as crucial as reversing the growing percentage of young adults who think military take-over is acceptable if the government is ineffective and in the two-thirds of Americans who cannot name the three branches of government.[16]  Nothing in documents and institutions of democracy and human rights guarantee the preconditions for their success—notably, respect for the dignity and rights of others. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Appeals Court Upholds ‘Obstruction’ Charge Used Against Hundreds of Jan. 6 Rioters, for Now ABC News – Ryan Reilly | Published: 4/7/2023 A federal appeals court panel affirmed the government’s use of an obstruction charge used against hundreds of defendants arrested in connection with the attack on the U.S. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The revisions come after years of pressure from members of Congress, who say the judiciary should follow ethics guidelines closer to those that apply to the executive and legislative branches. [read post]
1 Mar 2023, 7:55 am by Zamansky LLC
It’s a whole new branch of law connected to all of this, that’s for sure. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Pence is set to argue that his former role as president of the Senate – therefore a member of the legislative branch – shields him from certain Justice Department demands. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 9:37 pm by Jim Sedor
Perry’s appeal sets the stage for a constitutional test over the scope of immunity held by members of Congress from criminal investigation by the Justice Department under the Constitution’s “speech or debate clause,” which protects legislative work from executive branch interference. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 6:24 am by Dan Farber
Democratic Governor Tony Evers won reelection. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional Stock Trading Ban Has a Massive Blind Trust Loophole and Is Too Broad, Ethics Experts Warn MSN – Bryan Metzger (Business Insider) | Published: 9/28/2022 House Democratic leaders have released the text of a bill that would ban members of Congress, senior congressional staff, Supreme Court justices, and members of the executive branch from owning or trading individual stocks. [read post]
25 Sep 2022, 8:51 pm by Bill Henderson
  Law firms definitely fall into this category, owing in part to their smart and ambitious owners and, in part, to a regulatory regime overseen not by legislatures or executive branch officials, but, on a part-time basis, by busy and harried supreme court justices who are trained to look backward for answers. [read post]