Former WH attorneys call for top Trump adviser to be fired

[struggle4progress]

Chris Enloe
2 hours

... according to Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor who served as the chief ethics lawyer for the Bush White House from 2005 to 2007, Scavino violated federal law with the tweet.

“Look at the official photo on this page. Read the Hatch Act and fire this man NOW. Someone call OSC,” Painter tweeted Saturday, referencing the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees personnel violations ...

“Ethics 101- You can’t put official titles and WH photos all over your “personal” Twitter page and use it for partisan politics. Hatch Act,” he added ...

Daniel Jacobson, an attorney who worked in the Obama administration, echoed Painter’s comments ...

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/02/former-wh-attorneys-call-for-top-trump-adviser-to-be-fired-over-alleged-hatch-act-violation/

[sheshe2]

1. K&R

[Honeycombe8]

2. Wow. Scavino was calling for interference in another Repub's election.

Just wow.

These are mean mean people in the White House. And unethical. And dishonest. And corrupt. And mean.

Do you really eat your own in public? I don't think so.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Name the name ffs! DAN SCAVINO ! ... and here's a better link

And the The Blaze is that RW nut Glenn Beck's outfit!

Here's a much better link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/02/white_house_staffer_may_have_violated_hatch_act_by_calling_for_defeat_of.html

Did Trump Staffer Break Law by Calling for Defeat of Freedom Caucus Lawmaker?

The White House escalated its very public battle against the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus this weekend, when a top administration official used social media to call for a primary challenge for Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan. And he wasn’t subtle about it. “@justinamash is a big liability,” White House social media director [font size = "+2"]Dan Scavino[/font] wrote on Twitter. “#TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary.”

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Richard Painter, who served as White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007, specifically pointed to [font size = "+2"]Scavino's[/font] use of a photo in the Oval Office and his job description. "This is use of official position to influence an election," Painter wrote on Twitter. "Look at the photo and description underneath. Bush WH would have fired him."

[notdarkyet]

4. If we don't enforce the penalties to ethics violations, they will keep doing it and then

Soon no one will care about this stuff and corruption will ruin rampant.

[sharedvalues]

8. After 2018 when Trump is out and Democrats win a wave election, they better prosecute

No more of this Obama mediation-type politics where you don't prosecute criminals for torturing people. When people violate sacred American values, they should be prosecuted. Torturing people (or writing memos or starting businesses that endorse torture) is more sacred than keeping the civil service non-partisan. But in America, we have the rule of law. Crimes need to be taken seriously.

[Duppers]

9. Exactly!

Dems, when in power, cannot keep letting these things slip in order to appear nonpartisan ffs.

[tblue37]

5. Maybe look for a source that won't direct us to Glenn Beck's site. nt

[keithbvadu2]

6. It's not like republicans care about ethics or legality amongst their own kind.

[MineralMan]

7. That link popped up a browser-locking fake virus window.

Apparently, theblaze.com has an advertiser that is using black hat tactics. Perhaps links to that site should not be used here. It's a wacko conservative clickbait site, anyhow. Glenn Beck? No thanks. There's probably a better source for this story that won't try to hijack your computer.