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By Josh Gerstein @ Politico.com, Oct. 3
The Justice Department has released a series of recently overruled legal memos concluding that presidents cannot appoint their relatives to the White House staff or presidential commissions, even to unpaid posts.
In January, a career Justice Department official essentially declared the earlier opinions erroneous or obsolete, clearing the way for President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to take a senior adviser position in the White House. First daughter Ivanka Trump later took a similar official but unpaid slot under the same legal rationale.
The newly disclosed opinions, issued to the administrations of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and obtained by POLITICO Monday through a Freedom of Information Act request, detail how Justice Department lawyers concluded for decades that such appointments of family members were illegal under an anti-nepotism law passed in 1967 [....]
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump must go
Op-ed by Jennifer Rubin @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 4
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 1:32am
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud in 2012
New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
by Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliot @ ProPublica, and Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz @ WNYC,
Oct. 4, 4 a.m. EDTby artappraiser on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 1:57am
And did this come up in their security clearance review?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 6:04am
Ivanka is just Donald Trump in a shift dress.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-is-just-donald-trump-in-a-shift-dress
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 9:02am
All the president's henchmen
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/07/2017 - 9:08am
yes, Carl, that's why I've been following stories like this since before the summer. to add to the constant challenging by John McCain and Lindsay Graham since like month two. Jeff Flake wrote a whole book, did you hear?
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/07/2017 - 12:55pm
You mean you don't feel it obligatory to worship at the giants of modern journalism's feet? Shame on you, you upstart! We need tradition! and rules!
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/07/2017 - 1:16pm
I must admit that when I have seen him on TV lately, his commentary is often of the kind where the reaction of most news junkies (not to mention his fellow talking heads on the program) would be "doh!, not too swift, Carl, that was the meme last month, try to keep up!" Really, I see him as having a hard time keeping up with the youngins when he is invited to opine.
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/07/2017 - 1:21pm
Seriously, I've never been that impressed with Bernstein or Woodward (and knowing what we know about Watergate, less reason to), but I know they have the cachet, so I occasionally reference them to get the 15 secs of validation.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/07/2017 - 1:35pm
I like Woodward okay, I think he is far more sophisticated and nuanced, more scholarly and much less political and much less of a bloviating egotist. (You know the novel/movie "Heartburn" by Nora Ephron--the movie starring Streep--is based on her marriage to and divorce from Bernstein? As a person, he's a real ass.)
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/07/2017 - 3:21pm