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Since the legal profession is more self-regulating (i.e., regulated by attorneys and judges themselves rather than by government or outside agencies) than most professions, every state supreme court or legislature has a committee authorized to enforce the state rules of professional legal conduct....
government officials be wary not only of acting inappropriately but of giving the appearance of doing so.They won’t have to, or be able to, justify their acceptance by saying it didn’t really affect their vote, as they so often say now. The problem in some cases, such as free ...
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And while he appreciates that the Biden administration weighs in on cases before the Supreme Court, the White House has a "responsibility to weigh in when other government institutions aren't keeping up their end of the bargain when it comes to maintaining public trust." ...
Hansen argued in his appeal that the Ethics in Government Act, under which he was convicted, does not contain any criminal penalties. “The last thing Congress wanted to do” was send members to jail, he said. U.S. Judge Antonin Scalia, in a 20-page opinion for the three-member court...
“Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped ‘misinformation’ labels on it. Facebook did so in lockstep with the government. “So according to the standard set in 2020, the Department of Energy just came out as a racist purveyor of misinformation...
The two lawmakers, Reps. Ritchie Torres and Daniel Goldman, requested the House panel investigate whether Santos, also from New York, broke the Ethics in Government Act by failing to file "timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports." They hand-delivered th...
“Neither the federal government nor any state in the United States shall have an established religious body of any kind, and while truthful speech and postings in the media must always be protected, slanderous and libelous statements of any kind are prohibited and will be subject to prosecution...