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24 Apr 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Watchdog Out of Trump’s Grasp Unleashes Wave of Coronavirus Audits Politico – Kyle Cheney | Published: 4/20/2020 Lawmakers handed President Trump $2 trillion in coronavirus relief and then left town without activating any of the powerful new oversight tools meant to hold his administration accountable. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Gag Order on Trump in Election Case Leaves More Hard Questions DNyuz – Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer (New York Times) | Published: 10/17/2023 U.S. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
City ethics laws prohibit for city commissioners to hold fundraisers for a candidate for office. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Fed Says Trading Activity by Top Officials Under Independent Review MSN – Rachel Siegel (Washington Post) | Published: 10/4/2021 The Federal Reserve released a rare public statement revealing an independent review by the Office of Inspector General for the Federal Reserve Board, over whether trading activity by top Fed officials “was in compliance with both the relevant ethics rules and the law. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 10:20 am by Ashoka Mukpo
One was in Pennsylvania, another in Oregon, and the third in Cowlitz County, a mountainous part of Washington state about an hour north of Portland. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
More than 125 groups managing over $1.5 trillion in invested assets recently wrote to board members who oversee political spending at some of the largest public corporations. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Courts Urged to Enforce Campaign Finance Law as Regulator Idles Bloomberg Government – Kenneth Doyle | Published: 1/17/2020 Hoping to bypass the paralyzed FEC, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit after the agency lost a quorum of at least four commissioners needed to vote on enforcement matters. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Mother Jones – Russ Choma | Published: 11/8/2022 With the three Democratic commissioners and the three Republican commissioners on the FEC deadlocked for years, the agency has failed to reach any meaningful consensus on major enforcement issues. [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
-Mexican border and the deployment of tactical teams to Portland and Washington, D.C., against the wishes of local governments. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Canada Canada – Federal Court of Appeal Dismisses Challenges of Ethics, Lobbying Commissioners Appointment iPolitics.ca – Marco Vigliotti | Published: 2/13/2020 The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a complaint from a watchdog challenging the government’s appointment of new ethics and lobbying commissioners in Canada. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Attacks on Dominion Voting Persist Despite High-Profile Lawsuits DNyuz – Stuart Thompson | Published: 4/6/2023 Claims that election software companies like Dominion Voting Systems sent helped orchestrate widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been widely debunked in the years since former President Trump and his allies first pushed the theories. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars Yahoo News – Adam Liptak (New York Times) | Published: 12/19/2022 The conventional critique of the U.S. [read post]
17 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A White-Collar Indictment Shatters a Congressman’s Blue-Collar Image DNyuz – Kenneth Vogel and Kitty Bennett (New York Times) | Published: 5/13/2024 U.S. [read post]
13 May 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
A notice published by the board said the meeting, held 12 days after Meng’s resignation, was closed so board members could discuss a “chief executive officer’s briefing on performance, employment, and personnel items. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:32 am by Anne Joseph O'Connell
The Department of Homeland Security barely has any “official” top officials. [read post]
8 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Both Parties Wonder: How much do conventions even matter anymore? [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The viral online movement, which took root on Internet message boards with posts from a self-proclaimed government insider identified as “Q,” has triggered violent acts and occasional criminal cases. [read post]
23 Dec 2016, 6:47 am by Jim Sedor
Probation Commissioner John O’Brien and his deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke, were convicted in July 2014. [read post]