22 Nov 2017 3:24 pm
This administration seems to have a hard time comprehending the Hatch Act.
Kellyanne Conway appeared Tuesday morning on Fox & Friends in her capacity as a White House official, but weighed in on the Alabama special election.
Doing so appears to violate federal law, according to several legal experts and former ethics officials who served in previous administrations.
Conway’s endorsement looks like it violated the Hatch Act, a regulations that limits federal employees’ involvement in partisan politics.
The rule specifies that an official may not “use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.”
https://thinkprogress.org/kellyanne-con ... 5987220d5/