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Originally Posted by Sean
Janie, maybe you can explain something I haven't been able to understand yet in the reports I've seen. How can the report find that Palin has "violated state ethics laws", but also apparently find that she's "broken no laws"?
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From what I can gather, the state ethics laws are, rather, codes of practice for state employees rather than "law" as such - and when you think about it, in many respects this is what they have to be, because you could feasibly be violating an ethics law by being the boss of a company who also does business with the state, yet you couldn't be cited or arrested for something like that.
I liken it to the Bar Code of Conduct - there are things I can do which would result in me being fined, suspended or even disbarred, but for which I would not committing a criminal act or tort of any kind. I think it calling it a "law" (and the sections of it "statutes") is a bit of a misnomer really.