[EL] House candidate Carr’s campaign drops ball on required finance filing

[Joseph E. Sandler]

David
The requirement for a candidate for US House to file a personal financial disclosure report is not imposed by the Rules of the House but by the Ethics in Government Act--the federal statute.  While that statute confers certain authority on the House Ethics Committee to review the reports and implement the reporting requirements, the authority to enforce the law against a candidate lies with the US Department of Justice--not the House Ethics Committee which as you correctly surmise, has no jurisdiction to impose penalties on persons that are not currently Members of Congress or employees of Congress.

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of David A. Holtzman [David at HoltzmanLaw.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 9:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [EL] House candidate Carr’s campaign drops ball on required finance filing

How can the House, simply by its own rule, constitutionally require a non-member to file an ethics statement?
Can it really collect a late fee?
Even if the guy loses?
(The guy is a Republican running against a party-endorsed Democrat for Rep. Waxman's seat.)
(And the Congress for which he's running isn't the current one whose House adopted the rule.)

“House candidate Carr’s campaign drops ball on required finance filing”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63732>
Posted on July 24, 2014 9:28 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63732> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT.<http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-carr-late-filing-20140724-story.html>


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