In an Oct. 13 letter about enforcement of the Hatch Act, Scott J. Bloch, head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, said his enforcement has been nonpartisan. His examples included the agency's ...

Trump has long been clear about how he feels about the man who prosecuted him, calling Jack Smith a "scoundrel." Now Smith is under investigation. The post To investigate special counsel Jack Smith ...

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.

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 ...

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said on Sunday he would support an investigation into President Trump’s firing of the ...

Secretary Del Toro’s recent Hatch Act violation serves as a clear example of the increasing politicization of the military under the Biden-Harris administration and the resulting distraction ...

The Office of Special Counsel on May 16 announced findings that former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley violated the Hatch Act, which limits federal employees’ political activity ...

Back in May, I made clear my office would enforce the law as written.” Previously, OSC would refer Hatch Act violations by White House commissioned officers and other staffers to the president.

The US Office of Special Counsel filed a Hatch Act complaint on Tuesday against ousted Federal Emergency Management Agency higher-up Marn’i Washington for ordering her staffers in October to not ...