[…] chief counsel, Donald has worked to develop and implement CREW’s overall strategy while directing the organization’s team of attorneys. In that role, Donald has filed numerous successful Hatch Act complaints, testified before Congress on a range of ethics issues and guided the first successful trial in more than 150 years to enforce Section 3 of […]
[…] Chief Counsel, Donald has worked to develop and implement CREW’s overall strategy while directing the organization’s team of attorneys. In that role, Donald has filed numerous successful Hatch Act complaints, testified before Congress on a range of ethics issues and guided the first successful trial in more than 150 years to enforce Section 3 of […]
HIDING OR DISTORTING LEGALLY REQUIRED INFORMATION The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issues a memo pausing all federal funding, putting as much as $3 trillion of federal financial assistance in limbo, including money that pays for essential services like Medicaid, Head Start and unemployment insurance. After multiple lawsuits are filed, OMB rescinds the memo. […]
Several Trump administration officials appear to have violated the Hatch Act by making partisan statements about NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in their official capacity.
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appears to have violated the Hatch Act during a Fox Business interview in which he urged voters to defeat New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani while speaking in his official capacity, according to a CREW complaint filed today with the Office of Special Counsel.
Gavin Wax, a former FCC staffer whose name has been floated to fill an FCC commissioner vacancy, may have violated the Hatch Act several times during his brief tenure at the agency earlier this year.
Less than a year after issuing an opinion closing a loophole that enabled White House staff to avoid the disciplinary process for violations of the Hatch Act’s prohibitions on partisan political activity, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has rescinded that historic decision.
[…] rules, special government employees can avoid compliance with anti-corruption and transparency measures that would otherwise apply to full-time government employees. For instance, they are subject to the Hatch Act, which restricts the political activities of federal employees, but only while they are on duty, whereas full-time employees are subject to several Hatch Act restrictions even […]
[…] police his own conflicts– a troubling arrangement which will likely shield him from meaningful public and legal scrutiny on this subject.) And they are subject to the Hatch Act, which restricts the political activities of federal employees, but only while they are on duty, whereas full-time employees are subject to several Hatch Act restrictions even […]
[…] top appointees divest from their business interests as required Whether Trump enacts an ethics pledge that will lay out clear requirements for recusal for former lobbyists The Hatch Act What happened last time? During the last Trump administration, the Office of Special Counsel found that more than a dozen senior Trump aides, including Jared Kushner, […]
[…] House and the attorney general or FBI director to participate in political investigations or drop valid cases. Such actions may violate the Constitution and statutes like the Hatch Act and the Civil Service Reform Act, while also contravening longstanding (post-Watergate) DOJ policy protecting its independence. Below, we outline the laws that may be implicated, duties […]
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