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A Primer for Government Lawyers Faced with Officials' Conflicts
... to counsel, as will members of the executive branch. How often do political bodies follow the primer's suggestion and vote, not on ... what directions should be given to a government lawyer? And how often are such directions debated and decided in public? Not very often, I ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Nepotism and Withdrawal
... generally means that there is less transparency than usual. How will anyone on the outside (and even many on the inside) know that the ... affecting the progress of the subordinate relative? And how will the public know? How will the public be assured that there is no ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... to an Ethics Complaint It's always interesting to see how many ways there are not to deal with ethics complaints. When you think ... Board of Transparency It's also interesting to see how many ways there are to argue for a lack of transparency in ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Responsibilities of a Local Government Official's Spouse
... it is up to the community to decide. But he doesn't say how. The community can't do anything about the wife, only about the husband. ... is the definition of a conflict of interest. The other is how to enforce a conflict when it is not the government official who has the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Remedy for Lack of Ethics Training and Advice?
Body: How important is ethics training? According to Justice Ginsburg's dissent in ... weeks before Thompson was to be executed. Recognizing how hard it is to discover hidden evidence, Ginsburg writes, "The prosecutorial ... ethics, an unwillingness to try to understand what it is and how best to deal with it. Thank goodness no one is executed or left to rot ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Class Exception
... people might live in the neighborhood of a development, but how close is too close? The closer you get, the smaller the class of neighbors ... code. And insurance brokers vote on bills that would change how we regulate the insurance industry. Voting on a bill that directly impacts ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-22 09:15 - 0 comments
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The Way to Deal with Baltimore's Ethics Director's Conflict Situation
... of its developers. Aisenstark should have anticipated how this would appear (and be twisted) if it got out, and therefore turned down ... people unfit or calling for them to be fired) and how serious an offense it was. From what I can tell, what occurred was minor ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Commissions Need to Look at the Reasons Behind Gift Rules
... state Legislative Ethics Board has been discussing how many meals a state legislator should be able to accept from lobbyists and ... This discussion has some resemblance to the discussion of how many angels can fit on the end of a pin. Once you believe that one ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Consolidating Connecticut's Ethics Agencies Would Be Wrong for Several Reasons
... be seen as the governor's person. If someone can tell me how this could be good for these agencies, how it could save money, and how it could be more efficient or effective, I ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Government Ethics Enforcement: An Experiment Worth Trying
... the slightly deferred future, and focus more on how likely an outcome is than how bad it is. ... [A]nother reason why the strategy works: people are ... by people appointed by a rival drug gang. No matter how just the decision, they'll feel it's unfair and will not treat it ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
