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Oct 1, 2024 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
According to records obtained by CREW, following the outbreak of COVID-19, the Arizona Department of Corrections and its contracted private prison company staff allegedly withheld masks and laundry access from prisoners and ignored rules for quarantining and social distancing.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
In emails and letters sent to Arizona Department of Corrections officials via outside advocacy organizations between 2020 and early 2022, inmates and family members reported countless COVID failures and abuses against the state’s prisoners.
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May 14, 2024 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
Newly obtained documents reveal the FBI’s real-time reaction to the intensifying violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a quick escalation from believing that there were no credible threats of violence to witnessing multiple law enforcement agencies dispatch officers across the city.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
Skip to content America First Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank founded in 2021 by former Trump officials and close allies with the objective of advancing Trump’s policy agenda, announced last month that it will be expanding its state policy team after the launch of its first state chapters in Georgia, Florida, California, Pennsylvania and Arizona. Election deniers have been appointed to lead the four state chapters that have announced leadership so far.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
As of December 2023, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has received 59 allegations that Donald Trump or his committees violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. In 29 of those cases, nonpartisan staff in the FEC’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) recommended the FEC investigate Trump. Yet not once has a Republican FEC commissioner voted to approve any such investigation or enforcement of the law against Trump.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
This month, following Maine’s move to disqualify Trump from its Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment on the heels of CREW’s successful case disqualifying Trump in Colorado, veteran columnists and legal experts across the ideological spectrum have put forth their views in diverse opinion columns on the enforcement of the 14th Amendment against Trump.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
The Supreme Court’s ethical failures that have come to light this year have raised questions of how to implement enforceable accountability measures. One possible answer is staggered term limits. The Supreme Court is a uniquely powerful American institution held to uniquely lax ethics regulations compared to the rest of the nation’s court systems and other federal branches.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
A Colorado district judge ruled that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection on January 6th, however did not remove him from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, in a case brought on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the firms Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law, LLC and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
citizensforethics.org | Diamond Brown |Sara Wiatrak
While the previous public records law allowed attorneys to obtain discovery documents for cases like the recent constitutional litigation, the new provisions will curtail access to these records for everyone, including journalists investigating government misconduct. When redistricting is conducted in secret or without adequate oversight, it becomes increasingly difficult to address discrepancies or racial gerrymandering.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
citizensforethics.org | Sara Wiatrak
In the summer of 2021, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem deployed the South Dakota National Guard (SDNG) to Texas’s Mexico border with a $1 million private donation from billionaire GOP donor and Tennessee resident Willis Johnson. The use of the private donation to activate the troops was widely covered in national media not only as unprecedented, but also unethical and legally dubious.
