Republican War Against Ethics

Congress

For some time the GOP, which is the majority leadership in Congress along with the Trump administration has been conducting a war on ethics.

This has ranged from the effort to cripple the Office of Congressional Ethics

Articles

CNN - A brief history of the House GOP's failed ethics ploy

On the eve of the 115th Congress, as Republicans prepared for the first time in a decade to assume almost unfettered control of the federal government, the House GOP voted in a closed-door meeting to decimate the chamber`s independent nonpartisan oversight office.

The Atlantic - The GOP's Ethics Disaster

The gutting of the Office of Congressional Ethics is chilling evidence that we are headed for a new age of official embrace, or at least acceptance of unethical and illegal behavior.

The Independent - Republicans just decided to destroy the body that investigates corrupt politicians House Republicans voted to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent body created in 2008 to investigate allegations of misconduct by lawmakers following several bribery and corruption scandals. The move is part of a package of rules the full House will vote on Tuesday on its first day of sitting after Christmas.