“STOCK Act to be Signed Today”
Sunlight Foundation: “A few of us at Sunlight are excited to be going to the bill signing ceremony for the STOCK Act (S. 2038) in a few hours. While the ultimate form the bill took was weaker… Continue reading
Category Archives: conflict of interest laws
“Insider Trading Ban for Lawmakers Clears Congress”
NYT reports.
“Study Shows House Members Profit”
NYT:
A nonprofit ethics group here spent the last nine months examining every member of the House — for campaign spending, budget earmarks, office accounts and lobbying by any relatives — and found that the families of more than half… Continue reading
“The Dimensions of Judicial Impartiality”
Charles Geyh has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Scholars have traditionally analyzed judicial impartiality piecemeal, in disconnected debates on discrete topics. As a consequence, current understandings of judicial impartiality are balkanized and muddled. This article… Continue reading
“Senate Accepts Weaker House STOCK Act, Drops Other Reforms: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Policy Director”
See here.
“Retention Elections 2.010”
James Sample has posted this draft on SSRN (part of a symposium at the University of San Francisco Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Counter-historically, the highest profile judicial election campaigns of the first judicial elections cycle following the Supreme… Continue reading
“On a Corruption Bill, the Senate Gets It Right”
NYT editorializes on the STOCK Act.
“Wisconsin Supreme Court justices battle over recusing themselves”
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism offers this report (via Howard).
“The Influence Industry: Obama gives administration jobs to some big fundraisers”
T.W. Farnamfor WaPo: ” Big donors considering whether to work the phones raising money for President Obama’s reelection campaign might consider the fate of his 2008 bundlers. Many of them, it turns out, won plum jobs in his administration.… Continue reading
“Tribes rip Abramoff, ethics watchdogs”
The Hill:“Native American tribes are questioning the ethics of government watchdog groups that have partnered with Jack Abramoff since his release from prison. The criticism has turned the tables on watchdog officials, who are usually the ones pointing the… Continue reading
“For House leaders, no clear rules for policing their own”
Ben Pershing on lack of House ethics enforcement.
“Anti-Corruption Provisions Should be Restored to STOCK Act in Conference, Legal Center, Reformers Tell Majority Leader Reid”
See this press release.
“Fixing Washington”
I have posted this draft book review essay on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This Essay reviews recent books about lobbying, campaign finance, and the problems of Washington by Lawrence Lessig and Jack Abramoff. Together, Lessig and Abramoff offer… Continue reading
Powerful Amicus Briefs Supporting Cert. in Siegelman Case
In early February I flagged a cert. petition involving Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, saying I suspected and hoped the petition gets a lot of attention, because it raises important and recurring issues which have never been fully resolved about… Continue reading