I resist the temptation to emulate the less labor- (and thought) intensive blog formats of Instapundit and, much of the time, Althouse, which consist of posting a link and a brief comment, along with a substantial quote, followed by “Read it all.”

However, this is one of those weeks when I doubt my life choices that emphasized creativity and windmill-jousting over financial gain, because boy it would be great if I could devote full time to Ethics Alarms without ending up living in a cardboard box…

So while, as usual, the ethics issues battled out here on the Friday Forum are up to you, here are some links to content that might inspire you:

1. This op ed in the Times made my head explode, and it was so dishonest and partisan that an ethical newspaper would be obligated to reject. But this is the New York Times. Typical quote: “As Mr. Trump has pushed for partisan gerrymanders and a voter-suppression law like the SAVE America Act, we’ve seen strong voter turnout in races across the country.” Right. Trump’s at fault for the “partisan gerrymanders.” And partisan hacks like the author regard suppressing illegal voters as “voter-suppression”…

2. Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned in April, was not just engaging in inappropriate conduct with her staff (and one male member of her security detail in particular), but such flagrant violations of policy, rules and ethics that one has to question her mental stability. I wrote one post referencing her at the time, but the Axis news media soft-pedaled the story, probably because the scumbag in question was a Hispanic female. Three of the women appointed to Trump’s Cabinet had to resign in disgrace. The Inspector General’s report came out yesterday [Gift Link] Yikes. Typical quote from the Times piece:

“During a personal trip to Oregon, the report said, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer asked her driver to take her and the agent to a strip club. She also had the driver go inside with them and asked him to drop money from her purse onto a partially naked performer. When the driver hesitated, the senior agent told him to follow the secretary’s instructions; later, he told the driver not to tell anybody about the incident.”

Read it all.

3. The End is Near for the American Bar Association, writes conservative law professor Josh Blackman. Anyone who watched the disgraceful performance of the ABA’s DEI president being eviscerated by Rep. Gill for her evasive and disingenuous answers while testifying before Congress in July shouldn’t doubt Blackman’s analysis for a second. His article reports that the group is in full ideological capture by the Mad Left, and, as a result, is about to be stripped of its ability to confer accreditation on law schools.

Now do the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers….

There. That’s enough to get you going…