By Aaron Blake:
WAPO: From what you have seen of his efforts, do you think [Jared] Kushner is going to be able to get around this law?
[KATHLEEN] CLARK: In your question, you asked is Kushner going to be able to get around this. And I want reframe the question: Is Trump going to be able to get around this, because I see this as Trump’s first attempt to ignore the law, act in violation of the law, and he’s going to see if he can get away with it. We have a statute that names the president, that names the son-in-law relationship, that Congress identified a problem and enacted a statute prohibiting a president from hiring a son-in-law. President-elect Trump, in my view, is testing the waters to see if he can get away with violating what I would call this government ethics provision. And whether President-elect Trump gets away with this depends, it seems to me, in part on the public response as well as the congressional response.…
The Full Story (January 10, 2017)
(Editor's Note: Per the article, Ms. Clark is a Washington University government ethics expert)
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