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4 Sep 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal 1 Million Primary Ballots Were Mailed Late, Postal Service Watchdog Says MSN – Luke Broadwater (New York Times) | Published: 9/1/2020 More than one million mail-in ballots were sent late to voters during the 2020 primary elections, underscoring concerns about whether the agency has the ability to process what is expected to be a major increase in mail-in votes for the presidential election in November. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 9:02 pm
Trump Business Dealings Argued at Federal Appeals Court in Emoluments Case Greenwich Times – Ann Marimow and Jonathan O’Connell (Washington Post) | Published: 12/9/2019 Appeals court judges expressed skepticism that members of Congress as individuals have a legal right to sue President Trump to stop his private businesses from accepting payments from foreign governments without lawmakers’ consent. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 4:00 am
National/Federal A Landmark Supreme Court Fight Over Social Media Now Looks Likely MSN – Robert Barnes and Ann Marimow (Washington Post) | Published: 9/19/2022 Conflicting lower court rulings about removing controversial material from social media platforms point toward a landmark U.S. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 4:00 am
National/Federal Trump’s Legal Fees Are Sky High. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 4:00 am
‘I Still Don’t Feel Safe’: House lawmakers adjust to metal detectors, new normal MSN – Chris Cioffi (Roll Call) | Published: 3/12/2021 Since January, lawmakers have been queuing up at the chamber doors, rummaging through their pockets, and sliding bags and other belongings across a table before they walk through the metal detectors. [read post]
6 May 2022, 4:00 am
Gas Giants Have Been Ghostwriting Letters of Support from Elected Officials Yahoo Finance – Chris D’Angelo (HuffPost) | Published: 5/2/2022 For the past several months, local officials in Virginia and North Carolina, primarily elected Republicans, have been peppering federal regulators with glowing letters in support of gas projects in their states. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 3:00 am
In the Aftermath of Khashoggi’s Murder, Saudi Influence Machine Whirs on in Washington Stamford Advocate – Beth Reinhard, Jonathan O’Connell, and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post) | Published: 7/10/2019 Since fall 2018, Washington, D.C. lobbyists and lawyers have reaped millions of dollars for assisting Saudi Arabia as it works to develop nuclear power, buy American-made weapons, and prolong U.S. assistance to the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen, foreign… [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 4:00 am
Supreme Court Justices Under New Ethics Disclosures on Trips, Other Gifts MSN – Jonathan O’Connell and Ann Marimow (Washington Post) | Published: 3/28/2023 Federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, must follow strengthened financial disclosure requirements surrounding gifts they receive. [read post]
9 Jul 2021, 4:00 am
National/Federal 6 Months After Capitol Assault, Corporate Pledges Fall Flat ABC News – David Klepper (Associated Press) | Published: 7/4/2021 After the insurrection at the U.S. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 3:00 am
Pharmaceutical Industry Likely to Shatter Its Lobbying Record as It Works to Shape Democrats’ Spending Bill MSN – Yeganeh Torbati and Jonathan O’Connell (Washington Post) | Published: 11/5/2021 Ads targeting lawmakers who supported allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices were one strand of a massive, months-long advertising, lobbying and political donation campaign undertaken by the pharmaceutical industry and its allies, perhaps the strongest of… [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 6:00 am
National/Federal From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing liars to pay or apologize Las Vegas Sun – Elizabeth Williamson (New York Times) | Published: 4/2/2024 Michael Gottlieb, a partner at the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, is at the forefront of a small but growing cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, as a weapon against a tide of political disinformation. [read post]
4 May 2020, 9:33 am
The event will feature remarks from: John Allen, President of the Brookings Institution; Jason Matheny, Director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University; Aaron Klein, Fellow in Economic Studies; Nicol Turner Lee, Fellow in Governance Studies; Carrick Flynn, Research Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University; Franke Rose, Senior Fellow in Security and Strategy; Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Nonresident Senior Fellow in foreign… [read post]
31 Dec 2019, 4:40 am
DEAR FRIENDS: The bloggers here at the 1709 Blog have decided that this will be our very last post. [read post]
11 May 2020, 2:13 pm
The event will feature Denis McDonough, former White House chief of staff; Susan Landau, professor in cybersecurity and policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School; Edward Felten, former deputy U.S. chief technology officer; Avril Haines, lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and former principal deputy national security advisor; Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn; Jim Baker, director of National Security and Cybersecurity at the R Street Institute and former general counsel of the FBI;… [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 1:34 pm
The committee will hear testimony from Chris Inglis, national cyber director; and Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 12:42 pm
The task force will hear testimony from Eric Fanning, the president and CEO of Aerospace Industries Association; Raj Shah, the chairman and co-founder of Arceo.ai; and Chris Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries. [read post]
3 Jul 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal A Common Thread Among Many Trump Press Staffers: They’re related to other Trump staffers MSN – Paul Fahri (Washington Post) | Published: 6/23/2020 Landing a White House job is a highly competitive sport, and who manages to get those jobs has always been a subject of fascination. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal After Arrest of Giuliani Associates, FEC Chair Says Commission Struggling to Enforce Rules The Hill – Justin Wise | Published: 10/14/2019 FEC Chairperson Ellen Weintraub lamented the agency’s inability to enforce campaign finance law, saying in an interview there “may well be a lot of money that is slipping into our system that we just don’t know about. [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 3:00 am
Now Out of Office, Trump May Have to Face Tax Questions MSN – Jonathan O’Connell, David Fahrenthold, and Jeff Stein (Washington Post) | Published: 2/11/2021 When former President Trump returns to his business, he will face some challenges, such as declining real estate income and investigations from New York authorities. [read post]
