Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a lawsuit last week demanding that the agency tasked with enforcing the Hatch Act take more disciplinary action against Conway over ethics violations.
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway should be removed from her position in the Trump administration because of her repeated violation of the Hatch Act, according to a government ethics watchdog organization.
The legal action comes months after the Office of Special Counsel confirmed in a report to President Donald Trump that Conway violated the measure on multiple occasions by promoting his re-election campaign and attacking Democrats. The office recommended Conway be fired over the offenses and stated that her actions"erode the principal foundation of our democratic system — the rule of law.
"Hopefully this will encourage them to file the complaint on their own and not need to work its way through the court system. We are doing what is in our power to do and take it to the courts," Jordan Libowitz, the communication director at CREW, told"We don't file things, especially lawsuits, just to file them. We want to make sure we are right and we have a good chance of winning," Libowitz added.
The Hatch Act prohibits executive branch employees from using their offices to influence elections or for political purposes. But the measure has been broken by many high-profile Trump officials, according to the OSC, including White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
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