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Walter Shaub
Personal account. Comments are mine alone and do not reflect my employer's views. My remarks do *not* constitute legal advice to any reader.
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Walter Shaub 14h
Transparency would be a start. It would enable congress, the public and the media to monitor compliance better.
Walter Shaub retweeted
Joe Scarborough 18h
Family members who want Donald Trump to succeed need to let his Chief of Staff do his job. They need to get out of the way.
Walter Shaub 15h
Replying to @PrivateLabelLaw
We can't know what she intended, but it sends the message of a challenge to his authority, a warning not to pull rank on her or Jared K.
Walter Shaub 15h
Maybe send a letter asking WH about its mysteriously unsigned, undated retroactive ethics waivers or for copies of its ethics agreements.
Walter Shaub 15h
Thanks, !
Walter Shaub 15h
Replying to @Panawahpskek
I can tell you from experience that even a single stand can be costly. I'm sticking with courageous to describe this piece by the Senator.
Walter Shaub 15h
This is a courageous stand by Senator Flake.
Walter Shaub 16h
This is big. This is serious. To those who underestimate the importance of ethics, I say this is the dangerous effect of tone from the top.
Walter Shaub 17h
I'll be on Morning Joe at around 8:40 this morning, give or take a little. See you there! (Disclaimer: I won't actually be able to see you.)
Walter Shaub 18h
Alongside? This disrespectful tweet is a case for amending the anti-nepotism law to apply to White House -after OLC rev'd its 40yr precedent
Walter Shaub retweeted
Alexandra Petri Jul 31
Replying to @waltshaub
if they were as widely applicable as they were brief they might be ecumenical ephemeral entomological ontological questions
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @TaiRagan @amyhoy
Their very existence and its meaning. (Seesh, I had to post this 3 times to overcome autocorrect. What do you call that?)
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Thank you This has been the highlight of my year.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
This began as a fantasy about seditious little questions that confound authoritarian instincts. It's late and I have to go tuck them in now.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
I tip my hat to the master and raise the white flag.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
Hahaha!!! I would declare you the winner, but the universe beat me to it.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
Reposting: If their meaning is in the eye of the beholder are they equivocal ecumenical ephemeral entomological ontological questions?
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
I pegged you for episcopalian the minute I read ecumenical. It's like our secret handshake.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
Oh, here: If their meaning is in the eye of the beholder are they equivocal ecumenical ephemeral entomological ontological questions?
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
As a good episcopalian I should have added ecumenical before you got there, but I fear I've joined a knife fight with a paper clip.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @oothoon @ContraryMeri
I fancy the Feckless Lentils as a good name for a bunch of middle aged Washington lawyers covering 80s tunes by Axel Rose and Rick Astley.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
If they were short questions would you call this an ephemeral entomological ontological question? Or just another malapropism?
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
Yes!!! You get it.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @mateagold
Small consolation if I can't figure out how to use "ontological" in a satirical tweet about anthropomorphized questions.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @amyhoy
Oh, and "go ahead, PONC, make my day" is delightful!!! I love it. But, still, they're alive I say. They're ALIVE!
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @amyhoy
Semiotics. Ha! These aren't words, they're seditious little beasts, with their tongues hanging out waiting for you to answer them. ALIVE!
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
Maybe knows. She has the best words, tremendous words.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @waltshaub
If there's even the slightest chance I used "ontological" correctly, you can join me in imagining a PONC tweeting "I'm asked therefore I am"
Walter Shaub Jul 31
This isn't an ontological thought exercise. If they've got a nasty infestation of PONCs, you can see why the 1st Amendment traumatizes them.
Walter Shaub Jul 31
If these questions were crawly pests would there be a taxonomic difference between the Pests of No Consequence and the Not Pertinent Pests?