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CNN's Brianna Keilar challenged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Wednesday about her actions toward the National Guard outside the Los Angeles Detention Center this week.

Waters was denied entry into the federal building by the National Guard when she tried to check on David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union, who was arrested by ICE during the anti-deportation protests.

Afterwards, Waters posted to social media, “Today, I came to the Metropolitan Detention Center to exercise my constitutional rights as a Member of Congress to check on the safety and conditions of SEIU California President David Huerta, who was arrested by ICE. I pled with the National Guard, which was heavily armed, not to use their weapons against peaceful demonstrators who were simply exercising their rights to freedom of speech and protest."...

At least 62 members of 118th Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

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A Texan has been sentenced to federal prison for making vile phone threats to California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters' office.

On Monday, Brian Gaherty, 61, was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and be sent away for a 33 month term, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

“Threats to harm or kill elected officials are anathema to our nation’s values and must not – and will not – be tolerated,” said federal prosecutor Martin Estrada. ...

Since Jan. 1, at least 37 members of Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

The most significant violator clocked in as much as six-and-a-half years late when reporting up to $8.5 million in stock transactions — Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA). Another lawmaker was just a couple days late but still logged up to $165,000 in late stock disclosures — Rep. John Curtis (R-UT). Between them are numerous other Republicans and Democrats alike who have consistently failed to abide by the STOCK Act....

Buried in a U.S. House report that alleges Rep. George Santos (R-NY) misused campaign funds on Botox treatments, Sephora products and OnlyFans, and personally benefited from all sorts of self-enriching misdeeds, House investigators also revealed that the freshman lawmaker failed to file an annual congressional financial disclosure report.

That last bit might sound a little … technical.

But members of Congress who don’t publicly disclose their personal finances in a timely manner are in violation of rules outlined by the House and Senate ethics committees as well as federal law: the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. These laws are designed to safeguard against the very kinds of financial malfeasance for which Santos is accused. ...

In an unprecedented announcement, six members of the House Ethics Committee said Friday they were recusing themselves from an investigation into Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), giving no reason for their sudden break from the case, which has been in the works for over three years.