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FBI agents may not open retaliatory investigations into FBI employees who worked on January 6th or classified documents cases

The Trump admin has already taken hostile actions against some FBI employees who worked on investigations related to misconduct by President Trump, his allies and his supporters. As a result, FBI employees may reasonably fear retaliation from Trump admin officials. FBI agents may not open retaliatory investigations into FBI employees who worked on Jan 6th […]

Commentary & Analysis

President Trump’s firing spree includes his illegal removal of two EEOC Commissioners, undermining protections for American workers 

[…] diversity, equity and inclusion, but undermines enforcement of our nation’s civil rights laws by threatening the rights of over 80,000 private and public sector workers who file complaints with the EEOC each year—and threatens to reverse the progress the EEOC has made by adjudicating cases and enforcing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and seven […]

Commentary & Analysis

Attacks on the CFPB highlight DOGE’s pretense

[…] Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which established the CFPB as the only agency exclusively focused on enforcing federal consumer financial laws and protecting consumers against unfair, deceptive and abusive practices. The CFPB has since returned more than $21 billion to consumers through its supervisory and enforcement work. That’s in addition to […]

Reports
Democracy

Department of Justice attorneys, agents and investigators may not undertake political investigations or prosecutions

[…] the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act and the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act, providing a “secure channel” for whistleblower complaints. About the Office of Inspector General (OIG) – statutorily created independent entity whose mission is to detect and deter waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct, and to […]

Investigations
Accountability

IV: GEO Group, Centurion allegedly mismanaged COVID-19 in Arizona prisons

[…] Corrections and its contracted private prison company staff allegedly withheld masks and laundry access from prisoners and ignored rules for quarantining and social distancing. Whistleblowing inmates filed complaints against GEO Group staff for sustaining poor living conditions, while private correctional healthcare company Centurion faced backlash and a fine from ADOC for failing to follow […]

Reports
Corruption

The intensifying threat of Donald Trump’s emoluments

Donald Trump will once again violate the Constitution’s Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses if he serves a second term as president of the United States and fails to divest from his businesses.

Commentary & Analysis

White House staff will now face real consequences if they violate the Hatch Act

[…] staff violations were reported to the president, who could determine whether an employee would receive any discipline. During the Trump administration, despite more than 100 Hatch Act complaints filed with the OSC against senior members of the administration, none of OSC’s citations resulted in any discipline, including when OSC explicitly recommended removal for a […]

Investigations

Election deniers head America First Policy Institute’s new state chapters

[…] reported that Bondi’s office was considering joining the New York lawsuit against Trump University. In 2016, Trump’s representatives admitted to the illegal donation amid a series of complaints filed by CREW against Trump and Bondi. The Foundation was dissolved in 2018 in the face of growing scandals. Leadership of AFPI’s California chapter was handed […]

Investigations
Transparency

Emails reveal Secret Service contacts with Oath Keepers

[…] October 2015, the Montana Supreme Court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel recommended that Rhodes be disbarred for violating his attorney oath following a number of ethics and conduct complaints against him, joining Arizona, which admonished Rhodes in 2012 for practicing without a license. While the nearly all-white Oath Keepers themselves are purportedly not a white […]