Jared Kushner appears to be in trouble
And the upside of ignoring norms on nepotism has yet to materialise
WHEN asked to bend an anti-nepotism law so that President Donald Trump could put his son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka in the White House, the Department of Justice produced a sinuous argument. Trouncing decades of legal precedent, it ruled that the law did not apply to White House staff. It also reasoned that, as Mr Trump would consult his relatives in any case, it made sense to make them official advisers because then they would come under conflict-of-interest laws.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “No rose without a thorn”
United States March 10th 2018
- Donald Trump may make some businessfolk cringe
- It make sense for Amazon to build its second HQ near Washington
- Conor Lamb is likely to lose PA-18
- New York’s gargantuan development is shifting its centre westward
- Food deserts may not matter that much
- Heroin in Philadelphia
- Jared Kushner appears to be in trouble
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