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أخبار سبكتروم (فيديو): الحزب الجمهوري يمضي قدمًا في جلسة الاستماع وسط مزاعم الاعتداء الجنسي على كافانو

وقال آرون شيرب من منظمة "كومون كوز": "نظراً للسرعة التي دعا بها السيناتور كولينز والسيناتور موركوفسكي السيناتور فرانكن إلى الاستقالة بعد ظهور القصة حول التحرش الجنسي والاعتداء الجنسي عليه، أعتقد أنهما سيخضعان لمزيد من التدقيق".

قال شيرب: "هناك أسئلة كثيرة بلا إجابة حول البروفيسور فورد وهذا الاعتداء الجنسي الذي حدث قبل عقود. نعتقد أن هذه الأسئلة يجب أن تُكشف".

Newsweek: Donald Trump is leading ‘Campaign of Smear and Intimidation’ Against Bruce Ohr’s Wife Nellie, Democrat Says

“I don't recall ever seeing a president going so vociferously after the spouses of civil servants,” said Stephen Spaulding, with the non-partisan good government organization Common Cause. “On the Hill, disclosure rules might apply to an immediate family member. Nothing we have seen in the past is comparable to what we are seeing with Trump and especially out of the White House. And these are absolutely smear tactics. You see a pattern of behavior where he is absolutely willing to go after spouses of people.”

Detroit News: U.S. House hopeful Tlaib pays self salary from campaign funds

"Without allowing candidates to pay themselves, the only people who could afford to run for public office would be independently wealthy individuals who can afford to take a year off from making a living in order to run," Paul S. Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the watchdog group Common Cause said. 

NBC News: Texas GOP gets a win with Supreme Court ruling on alleged racial redistricting

Anthony Gutierrez of Common Cause Texas called the ruling a severe blow to voting rights.

"It is time for Texans to take up the fight for fair maps by establishing an independent redistricting commission," he said. "In a democracy, politicians have no business choosing their voters, it is the voters who should be choosing their politicians."

ABC News: Watchdog groups press embattled EPA chief Pruitt for transparency on legal defense fund

“There remains no record of the operations and fundraising of your legal defense fund,” the letter said. “If a legal defense fund is not carefully set up and administered, there are many ways the Fund may run afoul of executive branch ethics rules. Given the large number of ethics scandals now under investigation at the EPA, further scandals should be avoided by you and the agency.”

The Hollywood Reporter: Sinclair Laying Groundwork For Fox News Competitor

Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, who has loudly opposed Sinclair's $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune, says the company is "trying to look as nonthreatening as possible and make this deal look as innocuous as possible."

In early May, 21st Century Fox agreed to snap up seven TV stations from Sinclair in a $910 million deal that could help Sinclair get regulatory approval for its Tribune bid.

Publicly, Sinclair leadership has denied rumors of a Fox News challenge. But Copps is unmoved: "Watch what they do and...

Dallas Morning News: Payments to Trump attorney Michael Cohen pull back curtain on AT&T’s political machine

Yosef Getachew of Common Cause, a Washington-based nonpartisan group that advocates for a more ethical and open government, called AT&T's payments "another example of the power of big money to gain access and influence in all layers of government."

"The swamp is only getting swampier," he said, referring to Trump's vows to "drain the swamp" on the campaign trail.

Getachew said that AT&T, a company in the highly regulated telecom industry, has many matters that come before government agencies or Congress. For...

NBC News Op-Ed: Stephen Spaulding: How the Trump-Stormy Daniels-Michael Cohen money triangle could violate campaign finance law

Americans have a right to know who is spending money to influence our elections — whether it’s the hundreds of millions of dollars from unknown sources that has flooded into federal elections since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision or the $130,000 in hush money paid to a porn star days before the 2016 presidential election.

Rudy Giuliani has gone on a media spree recently to defend his new client, President Donald Trump, against the numerous investigations engulfing his chaotic presidency. But rather than make...

ABC News Nightline: President Trump Defends $130K Reimbursement For Stormy Daniels Payment

Paul S. Ryan, Common Cause vice president of policy and litigation, discusses the $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election.

نيوزويك: ترامب صنع نجومًا من خبراء الأخلاق. هل يستطيع ريتشارد بينتر تحويل ذلك إلى مقعد في مجلس الشيوخ؟

قالت كارين هوبرت فلين، رئيسة منظمة "كومون كوز" (القضية المشتركة)، وهي منظمة غير حزبية تراقب عمل الحكومة، لمجلة نيوزويك: "بصفتي شخصًا عمل على هذه القضايا لعقود، لم أرَ قط اهتمامًا عامًا كهذا". وتُشيد بخبراء الأخلاقيات مثل بينتر لمساهمتهم في هذا الاهتمام.

قالت هوبرت فلين: "إن وجود محامين متخصصين في هذا المجال، قادرين على شرح ما ينص عليه القانون وما كانت تفعله الإدارة، وبطرق سهلة ومفهومة، يجعل الناس متعطشين لذلك". وأضافت أن...

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