Richard W. Painter
MSNBC Columnist
Richard W. Painter was the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007 under President George W. Bush. He is the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota and is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.
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A criminal case against Comey could be a nightmare for any prosecutor on both vindictive and selective prosecution grounds and on the merits.
If Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy or their agents are beginning to work on projects that could benefit them, the public must know.
The new company could give Trump a remarkable conflict of interest in a key way Americans get their news.
A report from House Democrats says multiple countries spent, “often lavishly,” on apartments and hotels owned by then-President Donald Trump.
Nearly 20 years later, I must ask: What happened?
Calls for a new ethics code for the justices miss the point.
Two pernicious ideas came together to destroy the reputation and the business model of Fox News.
If Congress had known about Trump’s foreign bank accounts earlier, they could very well have looked into them.
Though Stacey Abrams’ group lost its lawsuit, the case still exposed major problems with the state’s voting laws.
A House committee revealed the former president’s properties charged exorbitant rates for Secret Service agents who stayed there while protecting him or his family.
