Senators introduce bipartisan ban on stock ownership for executive and legislative branch office holders and their families | CNN Politics(edition.cnn.com)

posted 1 year ago

New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks.

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thor_the_fox_sin@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

Great, hope it goes through. But why isn’t the judicial branch included?

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QHC@kbin.social

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1 year ago

I agree, but if we can clean up some of the blatant corruption in Congress then maybe the corruption in the SC and elsewhere can also be addressed.

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czech@no.faux.moe

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1 year ago

I assume if the judicial branch were included it would be found “unconstitutional”. Maybe this has a shot of getting through the supreme court and then we can go from there.

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