Category Archives: conflict of interest laws
“Trump’s Watered-Down Ethics Rules Let a Lobbyist Help Run an Agency He Lobbied”
Justin Elliott for ProPublica.
“Trump ethics rules curtail lobbyists, while also loosening some Obama restrictions”
Matea Gold for WaPo:
President Trump on Saturday signed a far-reaching ethics policy that will make it harder for administration appointees to profit off their time in government as lobbyists, while also carving out loopholes that government watchdogs said will… Continue reading
“The CREW ‘Emoluments’ Suit and the Congress”
“Trump Promised to Resign From His Companies — But There’s No Record He’s Done So”
“Foreign Payments to Trump Firms Violate Constitution, Suit Will Claim”
Eric Lipton and Adam Liptak for the NYT:
A team of prominent constitutional scholars, Supreme Court litigators and former White House ethics lawyers intends to file a lawsuit Monday morning alleging that President Trump is violating the Constitution by… Continue reading
“Emoluments: Trump’s Coming Ethics Trouble”
Painter, Tribe, Eisen, and Matz in the Atlantic.
“Ten Investment Firms Settle SEC Pay-to-Play Charges”
“The Emoluments Clause (with Seth Barrett Tillman)”
“Just when you thought the Trump ethics disaster couldn’t get worse, it did”
“Trump’s Cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it”
Manu Raju for CNN.
“Trump aide Reince Priebus warns ethics chief to ‘be careful’”
WaPo:
Donald Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff warned the director of the Office of Government Ethics on Sunday to “be careful” about criticizing Trump’s handling of his business conflicts.
“Government Ethics Leader Calls Trump’s Plan to Avoid Conflicts Inadequate”
NYT:
Just hours after President-elect Donald J. Trump said he would not sell his vast business empire and would instead hand it over to a trust controlled by his two oldest sons, the government’s top ethics monitor said his plan… Continue reading
Two Views on President Elect Trump and the Emoluments Clause
White Paper from his lawyers at Morgan Lewis
Scholars talking to Ryan Lizza