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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Puts Aides on Tightrope With White House Acceptance Speech
Trumps idea to give his nomination acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House may be legal -- for him. But it lays out a minefield of problems for the staff charged with putting such an event together.
Legal experts said White House staff would violate the federal Hatch Act by planning or participating in such an event. The Hatch Act bars U.S. government employees from conducting any political activities during work hours, while in a government building or while wearing a government uniform.
The president -- as Trump himself highlighted Wednesday -- and vice president are exempt from the law. But everyone else who works at the White House, from the chief of staff to the groundskeepers and event planners, are not.
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Trump Puts Aides on Tightrope With White House Acceptance Speech (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Aug 2020
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)1. But who will enforce it? Surely not Trump's DoJ.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)2. Laws are for us peons.
musclecar6
(1,685 posts)3. Laws
Are for other people. If King Donald wants to use the White House to announce, then the serfs must be at his beck and call ignoring any laws.
irisblue
(32,968 posts)4. Suffer the fears Staffers, suffer
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)5. KNR