The Massachusetts Senate stripped state Senator Dean Tran of his leadership position as assistant minority whip on Thursday afternoon, after an ethics probe found election law violations.
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Records showing that U.S. lawmakers with early reports on the coronavirus pandemic dumped private stock holdings before markets posted recordbreaking losses has roiled the nation, but criminal fallout is unlikely.
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After prosecutors dropped criminal charges, a New Jersey judge who was accused of helping her boyfriend avoid arrest will get to stay on the bench.
Read moreJenny Thornley, a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board, sued the board in Sangamon County Court, claiming it illegally closed an emergency meeting after she “reported allegations of a physical sexual assault and other ethical misconduct against the executive director of the board, (nonparty) Jack Garcia.”
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To keep pace with technological advancements on the battlefield, the Pentagon has announced new ethical principles governing military use and design of artificial intelligence.
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A divided en banc Ninth Circuit on Monday lifted three injunctions against a Trump administration rule that denies federal funding to clinics that refer women for abortions.
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A long-serving Alabama judge is stepping down after being accused of violating judicial ethics rules by appointing his son to handle cases.
Read moreAn investigation into disgraced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens found “probable cause” his campaign broke the law by not reporting that it cooperated with a political action committee during his 2016 run to the governor’s mansion.
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Former federal prosecutors warn the integrity of the Justice Department is in peril after the Trump administration reversed course on former campaign adviser Roger Stone’s sentencing.
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A look back at Donald Trump’s Twitter feed this week tells the story of a president who took aim and fired at the courts as the fallout from his Justice Department reversing its recommended sentence for Roger Stone battered Washington.
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A New York judge voluntarily agreed to step away from ever serving again on the bench to keep a lid on allegations that he made abusive demands of his staff.
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A three-judge panel has agreed with New Jersey’s Supreme Court that a judge who suggested a woman should “close her legs” to prevent a sexual assault should be removed from the bench.
Read moreLawHQ and Thomas Alvord sued the Offices of Chief Disciplinary Counsel in Texas, New York and Nebraska federal courts, claiming their rule that prohibits law firms from advertising using trade names violates the First Amendment and serves no valid purpose.
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A Harvard professor who opined on the ethics of accepting money from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein brought a federal defamation complaint Monday against The New York Times.
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British workers who practice “ethical veganism” to protect animals secured a big win in an employment tribunal when a judge ruled Friday that they are entitled to legal protection from job discrimination.
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A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media said.
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The House Ethics Committee has rebuked Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state for misusing taxpayer money and ordered her to reimburse more than $7,500 to the U.S. Treasury.
Read moreCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in federal court, to compel it to perform its nondiscretionary duty to file a complaint in the Merit Systems Protection Board against Kellyanne Conway based on its determination that she repeatedly violated the Hatch Act, warranting her removal from federal service.
Read moreA judge newly assigned to decide if a Texas hospital can remove a 10-month-old girl from life support against her mother’s wishes said Thursday she was allowing more time for a facility to be found that would take Tinslee Lewis, even as a doctor said the most basic activity “causes pain.”
Read moreAttorney Richard Ducote and a client sued the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana in federal court, challenging as unconstitutional a Louisiana Supreme Court rule that prohibits people who file complaints against judges from disclosing it, its nature, and the commission’s response.
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