Important guest post from Brian Svoboda over at Bob Bauer’s blog. Bob’s intro:

My colleague Brian Svoboda, an expert in congressional ethics, has written an insightful commentary on how we might think about the ends and design of effective congressional ethics regulation. This is a complex and important question to which altogether too little attention has been devoted. Brian’s extensive experience with these issues in private practice, coupled with his grasp on the broad policy and constitutional issues, enable him to effectively frame the issues for the discussion–and reforms-that are needed. He also tweets periodically on these issues at https://twitter.com/BrianSvoboda.