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🗓️ 29 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, how's it going? |
0:03.0 | Good. |
0:04.0 | Little quiz for you. |
0:06.0 | Two words, Hatch Act. |
0:08.0 | What does that mean to you? |
0:10.0 | I've caught little bits of this in the news and this is some kind of rule or law that |
0:17.2 | means that a person in the executive can't use like their executive position to be running for office or |
0:27.4 | something like that is that close? Yeah that's pretty good that's pretty good so this has come up because of the Republican National Convention, of course. |
0:37.0 | And what we've seen already is the use of the White House for the Convention. |
0:42.0 | So the First Lady has given a speech there, and the President is about to give a speech on the |
0:48.0 | South Lawn of the White House. |
0:50.5 | So not only is this unprecedented for a modern president to use the White House in this way |
0:55.6 | It raises this idea of well aren't there laws about this kind of thing? So there is this thing called the Hatch Act. There are, but the answer is actually a bit complicated. |
1:05.0 | So the Hatch Act is a Depression-era law that says basically government employees can't participate in politically partisan activities when they're on the job. |
1:16.0 | I mean the motivation for the law I think is pretty clear like you don't want employees to be using the symbols of their job and then also advocating for |
1:25.8 | their own political beliefs or working for partisan political activities. |
1:29.6 | You know, while they're on the job only, they can do things when they're at home or off duty. |
1:33.4 | Presumably the president and the vice president are never really off duty so |
1:38.1 | how does it apply to them? |
1:39.3 | Ah, so here's the kicker. |
1:40.7 | So while you've heard a lot of things about the Hatch Act, the Hatch Act applies |
1:44.7 | to all of these federal employees except for the president and the vice president. |
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