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It's not a question of if she's a credible commentator, it's that arms of the executive aside from the president and vp are forbidden by law from making politic
by throwawaymaths 2y ago
It's not a question of if she's a credible commentator, it's that arms of the executive aside from the president and vp are forbidden by law from making political commentary directly relating to active candidates. By announcing the title she did, the author put the academy at risk of violating the law.
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- SauciestGNU 2y agoSo are you proposing that nobody who has ever published a political opinion can speak at a state-sponsored event without violating the hatch act?
- throwawaymaths 2y agoOf course not. General political opinions are welcome. Even specific exhortations against most individual candidates from the past are too. But you better not come in guns blazing announcing your state-sponsored lecture with a title that calls out a candidate in this election cycle.