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The severity of punishment from the Board of Bar Overseers typically depends on precedents from earlier cases. But the board has not had a case before it in recent memory with a comparable set of circumstances, lawyers said.

 

When the Department of Defense last updated its directive that regulates the political activities of servicemembers, the social media platforms TikTok,

 

The White House invoked the Hatch Act Thursday when pressed with new questions about the discovery of what tested positive as cocaine in the White House Sunday.

A Secret Service investigation is taking every step necessary to find the person responsible for leaving a bag of cocaine in the White House this week, which could include forensics and camera evidence, according to law enforcement officials who spoke with The Post.

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates could not say whether or not the cocaine found at the White House on Sunday belong to Hunter or President Joe Biden, citing the Hatch Act.

The fact that a bag of cocaine was found in the White House last week, triggering a lockdown and investigation, has been in the news all week.

Ethics experts were baffled by the White House's invocation of the Hatch Act to dodge a question on the cocaine found this week at the presidential residence.

Ethics experts were baffled by the White House's invocation of the Hatch Act to dodge a question on the cocaine found this week at the presidential residence.