[FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

[Eric Charles]

Actually Jochen, this one is squarely on the Clintons. When Bill appointed
Hillary to a White House task force back in the early 1990s, this went
through the court system. The judges in that case ruled that the law
applied to Cabinet appointments and paid positions within the larger
government, but not to White House staff. Kushner will similarly be in a
unpaid position.

“We doubt that Congress intended to include the White House or the
Executive Office of the President” D.C. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman
wrote in the 1993 decision,
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/09/hillary-clinton-helped-pave-way-for-jared-kushner-in-the-white-house.html>
“So, for example, a President would be barred from appointing his brother
as Attorney General, but perhaps not as a White House special assistant.”




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Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
Supervisory Survey Statistician
U.S. Marine Corps
<echarles at american.edu>

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:57 AM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> First it was not clear what *-ism mix it will be - authoritarianism,
> nepotism, cronyism, nationalism or a mixture of it. Sarah Kendzior and Paul
> Krugman predict we will end up in an authoritarian dictatorship. What do
> you think, which *-ism will it be?
>
> Maybe you could say the new minority president teaches nationalism,
> practices nepotism and cronyism and leads inevitably to authoritarianism.
> Will he be allowed to break the law? Isn't hiring of Jared Kushner already
> illegal?
>
> The law clearly says: "A public official may not appoint, employ, promote
> [..] in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or
> over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a
> relative of the public official."
> https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110
>
> -J.
>
>
>
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