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RI Supreme Court Prefers Speech in Debate Clause to Constitutional Authority of Ethics Commission Over Legislators
... a decision on the legislative immunity case (Irons v. RI Ethics Commission) involving the state ethics commission and the ... of such an ancient and venerable hallmark of our form of government as is the immunity provided in the speech in debate clause without a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Obama's First-Day Executive Orders on Ethics and Transparency. Mayors Take Note.
... way to start an administration, with two executive orders on government ethics and transparency. It sends an important message to governments at all ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Cronyism and Ethics
... the stone used to build New York City's brownstones, the new ethics commission found that it was a violation of the town's ethics code for ... therefore, to enforce. Second, it's not clear that government ethics is the right place to deal with cronyism. Third, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Ethics Challenge and a Unusual Approach to Pay-to-Play
... according to an article in the New York Times . The ethics code provisions made it "illegal for public officials to accept campaign ... developers like this! It's also unusual to prohibit government employees from making campaign contributions, because this is ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Virtuous Circle of Ethics Laws and Legislative Immunity -- And the Legislators Who Stand Outside of It
... I referred to the virtuous circle that includes both ethics laws and the Speech or Debate Clause, which provides legislators ... ethics jurisdiction over legislators at every level of government. The principal goal of ethics laws is to have government officials put the public interest ahead of their personal interests. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Misleading Orange County (CA) Ethics Initiative
... But the initiative's wording calls the FPPC "the ethics commission," which causes confusion, because many in the county, ... enforcing of the campaign finance laws of its first local government, San Bernardino County. According to the editorial, San Bernardino ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Fitting Conflicts to Agencies and Departments
... Body: One of the rarely questioned truisms of local government ethics is, "One size does not fit all." Usually this means that one ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Consolidating Connecticut's Ethics Agencies Would Be Wrong for Several Reasons
... this year. The ostensible reason is to save money and use government resources more efficiently. But is this really the principal reason? ... in Connecticut (my state) to place the Office of State Ethics (the state ethics commission), the Freedom of Information Commission, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Top Municipal Ethics Film of All Time
... City, and I believe it should hop up to the top of City Ethics’ list of Top Ten Ethics Films . Hands Over the City is a dramatic film that is about municipal government ethics, and nothing else. A film whose central fact is a glaring ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Regional Solution to Regional Corruption
... of the concepts and practices of nonviolence to the field of government ethics. This is effectively an eighth post. This time the inspiration is not a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
