Using a personal attorney to threaten litigation and settle personal scores is unethical and inappropriate conduct for the President, explains Bob Bauer at Lawfare.
Joe Arpaio, the ex-sheriff pardoned by President Trump, has announced a Senate run in Arizona (NYT).
Democratic members of Congress expressed concern that the Trump administration may pressure the IRS to produce politically advantageous but substantively problematic withholding tables (The Hill).
Mandatory asset declarations for public officials may not actually decrease corruption, writes Ryan Balisacan at the Global Anticorruption Blog.