The director of the independent Office of Government Ethics, who has been the federal government’s most persistent critic of the Trump administration’s approach to ethics, announced Thursday that he is resigning nearly six months before his term is scheduled to end. Walter M. Shaub Jr.Source: Federal ethics chief who clashed with White House announces he will step down...

President Trump’s quest to reign in the millions of supposed illegal voters has hit a snag. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) reports. Buzz60 States aren't embracing President Trump's voter fraud panel with the same enthusiasm he had when he announced it.Source: Kris Kobach, states disagree on Trump's voting fraud panel. Here's where 47 states stand....

When a commission created by President Donald Trump to investigate voter fraud asked all 50 states last week to share the name, party affiliation, last four digits of social security number, voting history and other personal information for each of the country’s 200 million registered voters, theSource: Why California denied the Trump administration’s request for voter data...