Top Trump Administration officials have taken to the campaign trail to boost Republican candidates ahead of the pivotal midterm elections as the party battles to retain control of Congress.
Last month alone, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum appeared alongside President Donald Trump to support Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in his tight reelection fight against Democrat Mary Peltola at a rally in Wasilla, Alaska, on Oct. 13. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared in Wisconsin alongside GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden on Oct. 20 to speak to manufacturing workers during a Pentagon tour highlighting U.S. defense production. Last Monday, Vice President JD Vance and Burgum spoke at a rally in Topeka, Kansas. And on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefly joined Trump on stage, at the President’s urging, during a rally in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Cabinet members and other leading Trump officials have been wading into the midterms in these and other ways for months. In August, for instance, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan.
Legal experts and advocacy groups contend that in making such moves, members of the Administration have violated a decades-old law: the Hatch Act, passed by Congress in 1939, which places restrictions on certain political activities for federal executive branch employees.
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I think the better question is “would it matter if they weren’t allowed?”. Because it doesn’t seem to.
When someone is willing to rape and brutalize children, or help cover up for the people who serially commit crimes against children—are there any moral boundaries or limits on what their conscience will allow them to do? Are there any lines in their life that should never be crossed? These are the questions I contemplate whenever people seem to be surprised that constitutional guidelines and traditions of civil engagement are steamrolled yet again by the Trump administration.
Without consequences rules and laws have no meaning.
Are they allowed to? Were they actually doing anything else aside from pocketing our tax dollars and finding new, cruel ways to harm people?
The Hatch Act comes up in popular media fairly regularly too. Parks and Recreation had at least one episode on it.
If the best the regime can muster is send Doug Burgum and Brendon Carr on the campaign trail, they must be desperate. It’s hard to find Trump henchmen who are more inconsequential and devoid of charisma.
2016 ass headline
The demographic most likely to be swayed by Lutnick’s appearance:
You leave Healslimes out of this.
Ragnar?
