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Being Ethical Can Pay Off | Revolving Door Project
While we may be a day late for Halloween festivities, we wanted to devote today’s Hackwatch newsletter to something that really frightens DC’s influence peddlers: a robust ethics framework. Yesterday we released a whitepaper on how the next administration can help rebuild public trust in the federal government through six common sense rules for creating a transparent ethics regime.
Memo: Remembering Bush v. Gore | Revolving Door Project
TO: Interested Parties FROM: Court Accountability, Revolving Door Project, Take Back the Court, & True North Research DATE: October 31, 2024 RE: Remembering Bush v. Gore ___ Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear its willingness to intervene in the 2024 election, with a majority of the justices allowing a purge of Virginia voters asserted by the state to be non-citizens — despite the fact that many are citizens who have been misidentified by the state.
In New White Paper, Revolving Door Project Provides Recommendations to Reform Government Ethics and Win Back Trust of Americans | Revolving Door Project
IN NEW WHITE PAPER, REVOLVING DOOR PROJECT PROVIDES RECOMMENDATIONS TO REFORM GOVERNMENT ETHICS AND WIN BACK TRUST OF AMERICANS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrea Beaty, Today, the Revolving Door Project published a new white paper, “Rebuilding Public Trust: Six Principles to Guide Reform,” which provides a blueprint for strengthening the federal government’s ethics programs across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
To Reach Millions Of Tenants, Walz Should Talk About Housing More | Revolving Door Project
Housing is an important issue for both Vice President Harris and Governor Walz. While they were both on Capitol Hill, they had strong records on housing. As Governor, Walz even signed into law a comprehensive housing $1 billion omnibus that not only invested $46 million in Minnesota’s rental assistance program, but more than half of it went to beefing up the affordable housing options in the state.
Does Kamala Harris Agree With Donald Trump About White House Nepotism?
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Thrust suddenly into an abbreviated race for the presidency this summer, Kamala Harris has leaned heavily on a handful of trusted advisers to help her cut a path to victory. Chief among them is her brother-in-law Tony West.
In Search of the Trump-Osborn Voters
NORFOLK, NEBRASKA – What should have been a sleepy Nebraska Senate race could now upend national politics. Two-term incumbent Deb Fischer has been caught flat-footed by populist independent and former union leader Dan Osborn, who is giving her the fight of her life in a state Donald Trump carried by nearly 20 points in 2020. More than just control of the Senate—which professional handicappers rate as strongly tilting toward Republicans—is at stake.
No Democrats, Nor Anyone Else, Should Support Voter ID Laws | Revolving Door Project
Voter Identification laws are anti-democratic. Proponents of these laws, such as Heritage, argue that they’re needed to prevent voter fraud, which is just a bogus claim. They also routinely dismiss the impact of these laws on voter turnout, registration and access to the polls. Still, the standalone idea that elections in the United States should be safe and secure is noble enough. And the good thing is that they already are safe and secure.
What Kamala Harris Could Bring to the Justice Department | Revolving Door Project
This article was originally published in The American Prospect. Read on the original site. The last time she ran for president, Kamala Harris gave a 16-minute interview with then-Mother Jones reporter Rebecca Leber about her vision for tackling the climate crisis. Harris brought evident comfort and energy to the topic, but most striking was the framing to which she returned again and again: corporate accountability.
RealPage Enlists Ex-FTC Revolvers From BigLaw Firm Gibson Dunn To Fight Tenant Lawsuits | Revolving Door Project
RealPage, the real estate company behind the rent-setting software YieldStar, is facing a legal firestorm. Off the heels of a major ProPublica expose and scrutiny from three state Attorneys General (DC, AZ, and NC), the company is facing multiple tenant class action lawsuits over its involvement in a massive rent-gouging scheme. To fight these lawsuits, RealPage has enlisted the help of notorious corporate law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Enforcement: The Untapped Resource
After months of deadly stasis, with the surprise announcement of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Democratic fortunes have abruptly shifted. Though the country is still roiling with overlapping crises—rising rents and homelessness, compounding ecological emergencies, the loss of a federal right to abortion and the looming threat of the extremist Supreme Court—it no longer feels true that Democrats can’t get anything done.
Congressmembers Constantly Violate Job Disclosure Ethics Laws Before Leaving Congress
A 2007 law requires retiring lawmakers to notify a congressional ethics committee when they begin negotiating for a new job. But in the fifteen years since the law took effect, more than five hundred federal lawmakers have retired, with many taking lucrative gigs as lobbyists, lawyers, or trade association officials — and only eighteen departing representatives and senators have filed such disclosures, according to a review by us. This year promises to be no different.
Lawmakers Aren’t Disclosing Their Next Jobs
Great! Check your inbox and click the link. Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again. Jul 28, 2022 • Eleanor Eagan Despite a disclosure law, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, only one of 56 retiring members of Congress has filed reports on their potential new jobs this election cycle. A 2007 law requires retiring lawmakers to notify a congressional ethics committee when they begin negotiating for a new job.
Democrats Need to Fight for a Government That Works
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Despite months of increasingly desperate horse trading and frantic whittling, Joe Manchin has narrowed the reconciliation package formerly known as Build Back Better to just a health care bill.
To withstand authoritarian threats, ethics standards must be stronger
Jeff Hauser is the founder and director of the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Eleanor Eagan is the research director of its Governance Team. Earlier this year, many breathed a sigh of relief, after France’s far-right opposition candidate Marine Le Pen’s bid for the country’s presidency went down in resounding defeat for the second time in five years.
Biden Must Block Crypto’s Access to the Revolving Door
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Cryptocurrencies are no longer a quasi-legal backwater.
To Take Down Corporate Polluters, the DOJ's Environmental Enforcer Needs More Capacity | Revolving Door Project
Overseen by Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim, the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) is one of seven litigating components of the Department of Justice (DOJ). The ENRD is divided into ten sections, each with its own area of expertise. The Division fulfills a wide range of responsibilities.
To Unify the Country, Biden Must Name Corporate Villains
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. With his approval numbers continuing their steady decline and a potentially bruising midterm contest looming, President Biden used his first State of the Union address to lay out a policy agenda that enjoys overwhelming popular support.
From Shriveled Enforcement to OLC Opinions, Trump Stench on Exec Branch Remains
It seems that each passing day brings another example of how chronic underfunding of government is threatening the Biden administration’s ability to make good on its promises to the public. On the campaign trail, for example, Biden pledged to hold polluters accountable.
The Government Is Still Operating Under Trump’s Budget
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. A lot has changed in the year since President Biden took office. Across the executive branch, leaders who believe in the power of government to advance the public interest have replaced predecessors who were intent on dismantling the institutions they led.
How Things Will Get Better for Biden and the Dems
It is just sickening to watch the media pile on Biden. OK, Manchin and Sinema are holding the administration hostage. The signals from the CDC on COVID have been mixed, and Biden stepped on some of his lines at his recent press conference. The man doesn’t walk on water. But compared to … what? Here is a scenario for a Democratic comeback. Within the next month or two, my sources indicate that Biden will get about $1.5 trillion of his Build Back Better program.
Pelosi Turns a Political Slam Dunk to a Troubling Liability
With Omicron surging, Build Back Better sputtering, and the latest voting rights push facing long odds, it’s no secret that Democrats are in desperate need of a win to prove their worth. So what did Democratic leadership do when one such opportunity – enthusiastically championing a move to ban members of Congress from trading stocks – fortuitously fell into its lap? You guessed it…Speaker Nancy Pelosi mocked and immediately rejected it. This is political malpractice of the highest degree.
A Thorn in Biden's Side: the Revolving Door Project
December 30, 2021 by Eleanor Eagan – Dawn Niederhauser Late last year, Politico described the Revolving Door Project’s Executive Director Jeff Hauser as “the thorn in the Biden transition’s side” for trying to push the Biden administration to reject standard, corporate-friendly, revolving door appointees in favor of those who would zealously fight for the broad public interest. In 2021, RDP has only become thornier with its relentless scrutiny of the executive branch.
New Year’s Resolutions for Official Washington
The jury’s still out on whether Build Back Better is really, truly dead. Some think that there’s still a deal to be made after Senator Joe Manchin unceremoniously blew up negotiations over the weekend. Others argue that, if Manchin isn’t satisfied with a bill that has already been thoroughly hacked and chiseled to conform to his demands, he won’t accept anything. But whichever camp you fall in, it’s clear that the landmark legislation is unlikely to remain the only topic in town next year.
Trump Officials Still Running Biden's DOJ
Eleanor Eagan The American Prospect December 14, 2021 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) We are rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of January 6, and Attorney General Merrick Garland has yet to give any sign that his Justice Department is independently investigating former President Trump and his fellow instigators. This is, by far, Garland’s most high-profile failure when it comes to accountability for the prior administration, one that more observers have begun to notice.
The Trump Officials Still Running Biden’s Justice Department
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. We are rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of January 6, and Attorney General Merrick Garland has yet to give any sign that his Justice Department is independently investigating former President Trump and his fellow instigators.
Biden Team Overcomplicates Presidency
The end of Biden’s first year in office is fast approaching and the optimism that characterized its start is long gone. Supply chain problems, stalled legislation, a new COVID-19 variant, and nomination woes (both self-imposed and external) are all weighing on the collective national mood. Some are even starting to conclude that, regardless of what steps the administration takes in the coming year, Democrats are doomed to lose both houses of Congress next fall.
A Missing Link in the Fight Against the Climate Crisis
With his legislative climate agenda hanging in the balance, President Biden turned to executive action this week in his attempt to “assert American leadership” at COP26 in Glasgow. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced sweeping new rules to curb methane emissions.
Penn Law Should Require Faculty to Disclose Outside Funding Sources, Letter Argues | Revolving Door Project
Dear Dean Theodore Ruger: As you are certainly aware, the issues of antitrust and monopolization — especially around technology companies — have been at the forefront of the policy debate, legal cases, and the news media. Corresponding concerns have also been increasingly raised as many of the academic experts and scholars being cited by legislators, judges, and the media are also being funded by the same companies they are publicly defending.
Who’s Really Running Justice?
Andrea Beaty & Eleanor Eagan The American Prospect October 21, 2021 It was never a secret that Attorney General Merrick Garland was among the key Biden administration figures opposing Jonathan Kanter’s nomination as assistant attorney general for antitrust. Ultimately, however, Garland did not get his way; the appointment went to Kanter rather than to one of the many Big Tech–allied BigLaw partners whom Garland favored.
Who’s Really Running Justice?
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. It was never a secret that Attorney General Merrick Garland was among the key Biden administration figures opposing Jonathan Kanter’s nomination as assistant attorney general for antitrust.
The Senate confirmation process is broken - Senate Democrats can fix it
Key parts of President BidenJoe BidenManchin lays down demands for child tax credit: report Abrams targets Black churchgoers during campaign stops for McAuliffe in Virginia Pentagon, State Department square off on Afghanistan accountability MORE’s agenda are falling victim to arcane Senate rules, and not just the filibuster. Dysfunction is slowing the Senate confirmation process to a crawl too, producing a backlog hundreds of nominees deep.
The Senate confirmation process is broken - Senate Democrats can fix it
Key parts of President Biden’s agenda are falling victim to arcane Senate rules, and not just the filibuster. Dysfunction is slowing the Senate confirmation process to a crawl too, producing a backlog hundreds of nominees deep. For as long as these delays keep permanent officials out of their intended roles, they will limit the scope and ambition of the Biden administration’s agenda. Senate Democrats must act to change them.
Congress Should Subpoena Facebook Officials
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Facebook continues to lie to the public with abandon. That is one of the main takeaways from the Facebook whistleblower’s testimony last week. Even now, having been called out, Facebook is frantically working to obscure and underplay its own dishonesty. This is a familiar pattern. In scandal after scandal over the years, Facebook’s executives have left little doubt about their contempt for democratic accountability.
Big Tech’s Attacks on Biden’s Anti-Monopoly Regulators Are a Joke
In a move cheered by progressives and antitrust reformers, President Biden has nominated Jonathan Kanter to serve as assistant attorney general for antitrust. Kanter’s nomination, alongside that of Lina Khan to lead the Federal Trade Commission earlier this year, is the latest sign that this administration is, for the first time in generations, fiercely committed to enforcing antitrust laws.
Merrick Garland Is Failing His Biggest Test
In the past week, the Supreme Court decided to embrace its most evil tendencies, first by stating that Biden could not end Trump’s horrendous “Remain in Mexico” policy, then by clearing the way for millions to be evicted. It issued both these consequential rulings on the “shadow docket,” without even granting a fair hearing. The cruelty is breathtaking but hardly surprising. Ultimately, it underscores what we’ve always known: Biden’s agenda will face an uphill battle in the courts.
Merrick Garland Is Failing His Biggest Test
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. In the past week, the Supreme Court decided to embrace its most evil tendencies, first by stating that Biden could not end Trump’s horrendous “Remain in Mexico” policy, then by clearing the way for millions to be evicted. It issued both these consequential rulings on the “shadow docket,” without even granting a fair hearing.
How Biden Can Profitably Piss Off Republicans
(Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP, Pool) Since taking office, President Biden has been steadily (though arguably too slowly) removing officials left over from the Trump administration. With each new firing, Republican lawmakers have issued perfunctory, hypocritical statements condemning Biden’s “divisiveness” and “politicization” of governing institutions, but otherwise they’ve largely let the matter drop.
How Biden Can Profitably Piss Off Republicans
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Since taking office, President Biden has been steadily (though arguably too slowly) removing officials left over from the Trump administration.
New Wave Of Anti-Protest Laws May Infringe On Religious Freedoms For Indigenous People
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Over four days in June 2021, thousands of protesters attended the Treaty People Gathering in opposition to Line 3, a crude oil pipeline slated to be built across traditional homelands of the Ojibwe peoples in northern Minnesota. To begin the gathering, Indigenous elders led a public religious ceremony. They said prayers and sang songs that blessed and sanctified the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
Progressive Patriotism For July 4
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. This July 4 will be the first Independence Day of Joe Biden’s presidency. Americans can celebrate the holiday by expressing their patriotism around a set of ideas and principles instead of Donald Trump’s insistence that patriotism is about fealty to one man and his government. Trump has never understood that the ways Americans express their patriotism are as diverse as our nation.
Biden’s New OPM Director May Be Among His Most Critical Appointees. Here’s Why.
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It seems safe to assume that most people stopped paying attention to confirmation votes sometime around late spring (if not well before). And even those few who are still tuned in would be forgiven for missing the confirmation vote that directly preceded last week’s Senate showdown over the For the People Act.
On Voting Rights Republicans Have Told Us Who They Are. We Should Believe Them
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. America’s democracy is imperiled, and as we approach a coming crucible with a vote on the For the People Act in the Senate, we would all do well to remember: when someone tells you who they are, believe them. “The idea of democracy and Majority rule really is what goes against our history and what the country stands for,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) recently said.
Latest Trump Defense is Nothing New for Garland’s DOJ
When news broke Monday that Biden’s Justice Department was effectively defending Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll, many were shocked. After all, when Bill Barr intervened in the case to shield Trump from accountability last October, critics (including then-Presidential candidate Joe Biden) decried the move as extreme. Now Merrick Garland is defending it? As it turns out, this is far from an isolated case.
Markup Of For The People Act Revealed Depth Of GOP’s Adherence To Disinfo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. On Tuesday, the Senate Rules Committee held a highly-anticipated markup of S. 1, otherwise known as the For The People Act.
Want To Restore Balance To The Supreme Court? Expand It.
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last month, Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to add four new seats to the U.S. Supreme Court — a once-fringe idea that has now fully entered the mainstream. The Judiciary Act—introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Reps. Hank Johnson (D-GA), Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Mondaire Jones (D-NY) — is fundamentally about restoring balance to a highly partisan Supreme Court.
Reasons for Biden to Toss Jerome Powell
Max Moran & Eleanor Eagan MarketWatch May 6, 2021 The Federal Reserve chairman is out of step with the administration's vision, and what this country needs Read Full Article »
Opinion: 5 compelling reasons for Biden to dump Jerome Powell
By this fall, President Joe Biden will decide whether to renominate Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a fact surely on Powell’s mind each day. Every Fed chair craves the nomination of presidents of both parties as a bipartisan imprimatur. As a creature of Washington, Biden is surely attracted to the symbolism of blessing one of the former guy’s guys. Powell has also made some decisive moves toward easing the Fed’s institutional tendency to over-worry about price stability.
The Rules Dems Could Change To Keep The Tom Cottons Of The Senate From Delaying Biden Noms’ Confirmations
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Forty. That’s how many of Joe Biden’s nominees the Senate will have likely confirmed when his presidency crosses the 100-day mark this Friday. On average, it took these nominees 49 days to move from nomination to confirmation. With over 1,100 seats throughout the executive branch left to fill (not to mention hundreds more in the Judiciary), that glacial pace should worry you. Unfortunately, it can get even slower.
The Quietly Transformational Biden Presidency
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Whoever wrote Biden’s speech gets an A. It was essentially a laundry list of progressive ideas — but it didn’t feel like a laundry list because it included lots of morally uplifting transitions and personal connections, despite a handful of clichés about “America can do anything if we work together.” The President delivered it with passion and without verbal slip-ups. He made the most of the occasion.
Trump Holdovers Are Dragging Down the Biden Agenda
During his campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly held out the promise of an FDR-size presidency—the better to counter the misrule of the Trump administration. It can be said that he has already made some admirable strides in that direction with the passage of the American Rescue Plan. As Biden reaches his 100th day in office, however, he may soon find that comparisons to his self-identified North Star don’t quite measure up.
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