(CNN) The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is crafting a new advisory on legal defense funds for the first time in 24 years, according to an official with knowledge of the plan.Source: Exclusive: OGE crafting a new advisory on legal defense funds...
Sam Bagenstos, in a fine amicus brief for former DOJ officials, makes a very strong textualist argument (along with other arguments) that Ohio’s voter purge process violates the plain meaning of the NVRA and HAVA.Source: Is Justice Gorsuch in Play in Ohio Voter Purge Case?...
What a difference a week makes. On May 19, President Donald Trump took off in Air Force One for the Middle East and Europe.Source: Trump Acts Like a Competent, Conventional President Abroad, by Michael Barone...
WASHINGTON — Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, resigned under pressure on Friday after racking up at least $400,000 in travel bills for chartered flights and undermining President Trump’s promise to drain the swamp of a corrupt and entitled capital. Already in trouble with Mr.Source: Health Secretary Tom Price Resigns After Drawing Ire for Chartered Flights...
As California elections administrators, we feel it is important to clarify why we support Assembly Bill 840. (“Here’s how Jerry Brown can help protect vulnerable people, voting integrity and local control,” Editorials, Sept. 29.Source: Brown should help ensure election integrity by signing this bill...
Politics Trump admin furthers states' frustration over election hacking California, Wisconsin dispute DHS alerts Posted: Sep 30, 2017 06:23 AM MDT Updated: Sep 30, 2017 07:20 AM MDT CNN CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) - Tension between state election officials andSource: Trump admin furthers states' frustration over election hacking...
Major public companies are letting a little more sunlight into their wallets, making more disclosures about their political spending on their web sites and adding more board oversight to monitor it, according to a new study.Source: The most and least transparent companies for political spending...
"Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump," Zuckerberg said in a statement posted to Facebook. "Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like."Source: Zuckerberg responds to Trump's claim Facebook was out to get him...
SAN FRANCISCO — After a weekend when Americans took to social media to debate President Trump’s admonishment of N.F.L.Source: Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election...
The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have asked executives from major tech companies to appear in open hearings tied to the committees’ Russia investigations.Source: Twitter, Google, Facebook Called to Testify Before Congress Over Russian Campaign Ads...
