I agree with everyone who says the Administration of @JoeBiden will be ten times more ethical than the Administration of @realDonaldTrump.
Ten times zero is zero. @JoeBiden must set a higher bar. Americans are fed up with deceit, conflicts of interest and corruption.
The agenda of @JoeBiden on ethics must be clear as of January 20. Being better -- even much better -- than @realDonaldTrump is not enough. Americans want change. Change starts at the top.
Presidents, Vice Presidents and Members of Congress should be prohibited from owning and trading individual stocks and should be subject to the same financial conflict of interest laws that bind other federal employees. 18 U.S.C. 208.
Consulting firms, lobbying firms and others that sell their clients access to the federal government should not be allowed private meetings with presidential appointees. Firms that previously employed high ranking presidential appointees should be subject to even more scrutiny.
Any federal employee who violates the Hatch Act should be fired immediately - which is exactly what should have happened with @KellyannePolls the first time.
Any DOJ lawyer who allows partisan politics to affect prosecution decisions should be fired and -- if obstruction of justice is involved -- prosecuted. The days of Bill Barr are over.
Most important, in calculating the standards of ethics in his administration @JoeBiden needs to consider what Donald Trump did with respect to ethics- absolutely nothing- to be an irrelevant factor. The sooner this administration is in our rear view mirror the better.
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Last night in an emergency request for a stay of certification of Pennsylvania election results the GOP cited this case Chase v. Miller (Pa 1862) ten times. The case talks about in person voting by "white freemen" who pay the tax. A bit dated eh?
“In elections by the citizens, every white freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the state one year, and in the election district where he offers to vote ten days immediately preceding such election, and within two years paid a state or county tax." Huh?
Chase v, Miller (Pa 1862) held that Civil War soldiers could not vote absentee -- even if they were white. Still good case law? A good reason to throw out every mail in ballot in Pennsylvania in 2020? What's up with the Pennsylvania GOP?
Citing now defunct Art. 3 of the PA Constitution: “In elections by the citizens, every white freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the state one year, and in the election district where he offers to vote .... and within two years paid a state or county tax."
Legal briefing 101: An 1862 Pennsylvania case interpreting an election law provision of the Pennsylvania constitution that bestows the right to vote on "every white freeman" is probably too old to cite for purposes of overturning a Pennsylvania election result in 2020.
There is absolutely no excuse for Senators and Representatives to own individual stocks in health care companies, energy companies and other businesses while voting on OUR health care and OUR environment. Vote them out!!
@LewisForMN -- the time to have sold those medical device company stocks was 2018.
As my congressman from 2017-2019 it was your responsibility to demand that all Minnesota representatives and senators sell all individual stocks in health care companies and other businesses that present a conflict of interest. Better late than never. @realDonaldTrump too!
Wow! In today’s mail I just got my official “Christian Voter Registration” package urging me to re-elect @realDonaldTrump because of my religion. I wonder if Jewish, Muslim and Hindu families in my neighborhood got the same mailer. They get to vote too. For now....
Searching through the Bible as hard as I can. I still can't find that passage in the Old Testament or New Testament where it says that the Messiah will come to "grab 'em by the ....."
18 U.S. Code § 521, Criminal Street Gangs, provides for up to ten years more prison time if the defendant was a member of a "criminal street gang" at the time of the offense.
So let's see if the Minneapolis police union fits the definition ....
“criminal street gang” means an ongoing group, club, organization, or association of 5 or more persons—
(A) that has as 1 of its primary purposes the commission of 1 or more of the criminal offenses described in subsection (c);
(B) the members of which engage, or have engaged within the past 5 years, in a continuing series of offenses described in subsection (c); and
(C) the activities of which affect interstate or foreign commerce.
People love to talk about how progressive and politically correct they are in Minnesota.
But the minute you challenge what people do rather than just say about what they believe, many become very defensive.
On no issue is this more obvious than race.
A University Honors Program with less than 1% black enrollment (and its own segregated student housing) defended by "progressive"administrators and a website that shills about diversity.
Give me a break.