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William Braden: Crippled ethics
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, July 9, 2009
With the latest ruling of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, the Ethics Commission may no longer take into account the actual voting behavior of a legislator when weighing ethics charges against him or her.
A constitutional amendment could repair this problem, but passage of such an amendment could take months or years.
In the meantime, the General Assembly should form its own ethics committee. A legislator whose speech or votes may not be questioned “in any other place” may still be held to account in the Assembly itself.
This is not an ideal solution, but it is preferable to relying on a crippled Ethics Commission.
WILLIAM BRADEN
Providence
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