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  1. Loyalty and Plausible Deniability on the 40th Anniversary of Watergate

    ... National Committee's offices in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. According to an editorial in the Fort Wayne Journal ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  2. Legislative Immunity: An Official's Motive Is Not At Issue in a Conflict Situation

    ... on local legislative immunity came down on May 24 from the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, Kickapoo Tribe v. Black ... with the aid of the Kansas Farm Bureau, lobbying trips to Washington, D.C., and letter writing campaigns to (a) convince local municipal ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  3. Attorney-Client Privilege and Financial Disclosure: A New NYC Bar Association Report

    ... was published in January, could identify only four states -- Washington, California, Alaska, and Louisiana -- that have financial disclosure ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  4. Government Ethics and the Limits of Mental Bandwidth

    ... of bandwidth as applied to the human mind. He notes that in Washington, "If a project must be abandoned or put on hold because of ... and executive control (what organizes our thoughts and keeps us from acting impulsively). The result of too little mental bandwidth is that ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  5. Scrutinizing Strict Scrutiny in a Government Ethics Context

    ... the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) met in Washington, D.C. and, as usual, I learned about a lot of cases and matters I ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  6. Why Hilary Krieger Is Wrong About City Machines

    ... effective government? This time it's Hilary Krieger, a Washington Post editor, who recently made the argument in an op-ed piece ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  7. ERC Releases Report:

    Body:  The Ethics Resource Center in Washington DC has released an interesting document for anyone active in the ...

    donmc - 2015-05-15 14:06 - 0 comments

  8. Happy Birthday, Citizens United!

    ... January 21, 2010 was a watershed day in U.S. political history—it was the day the Supreme Court decided Citizens ... and a former police detective who were working with the Washington, D.C. based "Campaign Guru"—Ravneet Singh. Also named as a ...

    cmiller - 2014-01-24 19:21 - 0 comments

  9. Cities & Counties Initiatives for COGEL

    ... Pelham ) Chicago ( Dorothy Eng, Jennifer Vidas ) Washington D.C. San Francisco, California ( Mabel Ng ) Philadelphia ( ... representatives from all of the different cities to join us in working on municipal ethics initiatives. We will continue to build the ...

    donmc - 2007-03-01 23:00 - 0 comments

  10. What Can Ethics Officials Do Outside Their Jurisdiction?

    ... York City has had more problems with council earmarks than Washington, D.C. (see recent blog post on D.C. ), and now the city's ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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