All posts tagged "Hatch Act"

Brand-new Attorney General Todd Blanche endorsed a MAGA candidate for New York governor, a move that prompted outcry.

Alongside President Donald Trump, Blanche appeared in Garden City, New York, to stump for Bruce Blakeman, the GOP nominee for governor of New York, running against incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Online critics slammed the idea of the country's top law enforcement official endorsing a candidate and suggested it may even violate the Hatch Act, which bars most executive branch employees from partisan political activity....

An investigation has been launched into a Trump 2024 flag that was hoisted on a New York post office's flagpole, according to a local report.

CBS 6 Albany reported that the flag was raised at a local post office, which vowed to remove it immediately.

"A new flag flown at the Delmar Post Office Monday morning," the outlet reported Monday. "A third flag was added to the flag pole stationed outside government building: the American flag, followed by a POW flag, and finally a 2024 Donald Trump for President flag."...