Bob Bauer, the former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, writing for his Substack, Executive Functions, said he believed this was the first attempt to apply the Hatch Act to a criminal ...

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel said opened an investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith and whether he ...

The law has barely survived constitutional scrutiny and has been more honored in the breach than the observance.

It was created to draw a clear line between an employee's partisan political interests and their official responsibilities.

Senate Democrats are pressing the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to investigate whether White House officials have violated ...

The Justice Department has turned its focus to Democrats and former Biden officials as it grapples with the fallout of its ...

Federal officials are investigating former special counsel Jack Smith after President Donald Trump and other prominent ...

Jack Smith, who investigated two cases against President Trump before his second-term election, is under investigation by an ...

Trump has long been clear about how he feels about the man who prosecuted him, calling Jack Smith a "scoundrel." Now Smith is ...

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s cases brought two criminal indictments against Donald Trump in 2023 for the mishandling of classified documents and the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Sen. Tom ...

Experts were baffled by the Biden administration invoking the Hatch Act when asked whether President Biden or his son owned the cocaine found at the White House. The culprit behind the White House ...

It's notable that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was accused of violating the Hatch Act, but the contextual details matter. June 20, 2023, 9:35 AM EDT By Steve Benen ...