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Legal experts said Wednesday that Housing Secretary Ben Carson likely did not violate federal law when he appeared with President Donald Trump at a campaign rally.After the appearance Tuesday night, questions were raised on Twitter about whether Carson had violated the federal law known as the Hatch Act, which bars most executive branch off stanley tumblers icials from using their government positions to influence elections.Kathleen Clark, an attorney and law professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, says Carson isn t prohibited from speaking at a campaign event, but Hatch would bar him from invoking or using his official position to engage in partisan political activity.                                        Housing and Urban Development spokesman Jerry Brown said the agency doesn t think Carson did anything wrong. His travel and lodging were not paid for by the department. He was there in his personal capacity. He didn t discuss HUD during the speech.         Brown says the Trump campaign paid expenses for Carson s trip to Phoenix, where he stood alongside a president still reeling from the w stanley termohrnek idespread condemnation of his response to violence at a Charlottesville, Virginia, protest earlier this month.Carson spoke to the crowd before Mr. Trump. The only black Cabinet member, he talked about his experiences growing up with racism and said that, ev stanley cup ery time the U.S. has encountered bigotry and division, the country has left those ideologies in  the rear view window. An annou Eocb Former Arizona attorney general withheld report showing no widespread voter fraud in 2020
  AP Former Republican Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman sued after the recount in his razor-close election battle with Democrat Al Franken, above, showed the former comedian with a 225 vote lead,  stanley cup setting off a legal battle that has dragged for months. The results of that lawsuit, however, appear to have helped Franken more than Coleman, at least for the time being. Franken today extended his lead by almost 100 votes, and he now leads Coleman by 312, reports the Associated Press.                                        Last week, the three-judge panel hearing the case allowed for 351 additional contested absentee ballot stanley thermos mug s to be counted stanley cup . The count, which happened today, netted Franken more votes than it did Coleman. But the six-month old battle over the vote, which took place way back on November 4, is not yet over.         For one, there are still other issues pending in this original lawsuit, and the panel hearing the case has not said when it will come to a final resolution, reports The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Based on the decisions so far, it s expected Franken will prevail when that happens.After that, Coleman has said he would appeal the decision to the Minnesota Supreme Court.                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5  {        display: none;      }       inline-recirc-item--id-d17e5386-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-d17e5386-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d {        display: none;   

Gove On Landmark Day, Harlem Goes To D.C.
Legal experts said Wednesday that Housing Secretary Ben Carson likely did not violate federal law when he appeared with President Donald Trump at a campaign rally.After the appearance Tuesday night, questions were raised on Twitter about whether Carson had violated the federal law known as the Hatch Act, which bars most executive branch off stanley tumblers icials from using their government positions to influence elections.Kathleen Clark, an attorney and law professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, says Carson isn t prohibited from speaking at a campaign event, but Hatch would bar him from invoking or using his official position to engage in partisan political activity.                                        Housing and Urban Development spokesman Jerry Brown said the agency doesn t think Carson did anything wrong. His travel and lodging were not paid for by the department. He was there in his personal capacity. He didn t discuss HUD during the speech.         Brown says the Trump campaign paid expenses for Carson s trip to Phoenix, where he stood alongside a president still reeling from the w stanley termohrnek idespread condemnation of his response to violence at a Charlottesville, Virginia, protest earlier this month.Carson spoke to the crowd before Mr. Trump. The only black Cabinet member, he talked about his experiences growing up with racism and said that, ev stanley cup ery time the U.S. has encountered bigotry and division, the country has left those ideologies in  the rear view window. An annou Eocb Former Arizona attorney general withheld report showing no widespread voter fraud in 2020
  AP Former Republican Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman sued after the recount in his razor-close election battle with Democrat Al Franken, above, showed the former comedian with a 225 vote lead,  stanley cup setting off a legal battle that has dragged for months. The results of that lawsuit, however, appear to have helped Franken more than Coleman, at least for the time being. Franken today extended his lead by almost 100 votes, and he now leads Coleman by 312, reports the Associated Press.                                        Last week, the three-judge panel hearing the case allowed for 351 additional contested absentee ballot stanley thermos mug s to be counted stanley cup . The count, which happened today, netted Franken more votes than it did Coleman. But the six-month old battle over the vote, which took place way back on November 4, is not yet over.         For one, there are still other issues pending in this original lawsuit, and the panel hearing the case has not said when it will come to a final resolution, reports The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Based on the decisions so far, it s expected Franken will prevail when that happens.After that, Coleman has said he would appeal the decision to the Minnesota Supreme Court.                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5  {        display: none;      }       inline-recirc-item--id-d17e5386-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-d17e5386-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d {        display: none;