transport: List of federal political scandals in the United States

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This article provides a list of political scandals that involve officials from the government of the United States, sorted from oldest to most recent.

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This list of political parties in the United States identifies notable political parties in the United States, both past and present, both major and minor. Notes: The list does not include independents, whose notable election runs can be found at list of independent performances in United States elections. Voter registration numbers below should be taken as a lower bound, because not all states allow public access to voter registration data. Abbreviations come from the parties themselves and from state ballots used in the most recent elections. Not all parties have abbreviations. Ballot access comes from a variety of sources including Ballotpedia, The Green Papers, and various state Secreta…

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The Democratic Party is a liberal political party in the United States, sitting on the center to center-left of the political spectrum. Founded in 1828, it is the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival is the Republican Party, and since the 1850s, both have dominated American politics. The Democratic Party initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and geographical expansionism, while opposing a national bank and high tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whigs. In 1860, the party split into Northern and Southern factions over slavery. The party remained dominated by agrarian interests, contrasting wi…

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The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States). The U.S. also possesses five major territories and nine minor islands. Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows states to exercise all powers of government not delegated to the federal government. Each state has its own constitution and government. All states and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators, whi…

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Bureaucratic Corruption and Political Scandals. This chapter assesses Japanese bureaucracy, looking at the relationship between bureaucratic corruption and political scandals. If political corruption can be defined as perverting the course of the democratic process, bureaucratic corruption can be defined as perverting the course of the administrative process. Perversions of the administrative process, however, seldom produce ideal ingredients for constructing a scandal. The chapter begins by reviewing the involvement of bureaucrats in the major political scandals before 1993. Newspaper reports focused primarily on the politicians and virtually ignored ministry officials. In none of the scan…

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Federal Political Scandals and Public Officials' Careers. Abstract Are public officials held accountable for political scandals? Existing scholarship typically focuses on voters' response to scandals showing politicians are often punished at the polls for scandals. Specifically, they are more likely to be punished for the abuse of public office for personal gain than for scandals involving personal affairs. That said, not all politicians implicated in scandals seek reelection. Although difficult to observe, many politicians may be pushed out of office by their political party before they have an opportunity to stand for reelection – resigning or retiring before the next election. Others are…

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Officials charged with the enforcement of food laws in the United States and Canada

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Politicians Gone Wild: A Comparative Analysis of Political Scandals in New Zealand, The United States and France. <p>The place of political scandals in the academic literature is contentious; scandals are commonly dismissed as distractions from the ‘real issues’ in a society. This thesis challenges that notion, instead arguing that political scandals are an important phenomenon in functioning democracies. Through a comparative lens, political transgressions since the year 2000 that have occurred in three liberal democracies, New Zealand, the United States and France, have been analysed. Transgressions by political actors in these jurisdictions of a sexual, financial and power nature have be…

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The United States has provided extensive military, diplomatic, and financial support to Israel during the ongoing Gaza war. This has included rapid deployment of warships and military aircraft, billions of dollars in military aid and expedited weapons shipments — including guided missiles, artillery shells, and advanced defense systems. After an initial period of broader Western support for Israel's offensive, Israel and the United States have become increasingly isolated amid growing worldwide calls for a ceasefire, with the US vetoing six United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire. International rights groups have condemned the U.S. for providing support to Israel…

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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party". In 1803, the court asserted the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitu…

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The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a right-wing populist and neo-nationalist political party in the United States, sitting on the right-wing to far-right of the political spectrum. Founded in 1854, it emerged as the main rival of the Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. It rapidly gained support in the North, drawing in former Whigs, Free Soilers, and former Know Nothings. Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 as president led to the secession of Southern s…

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American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856. Despite keeping the same names, the two parties have evolved in terms of ideologies, positions, and support bases over their long lifespans, in response to social, cultural, and economic developments—the Democratic Party being the left-of-center party since the time of the New Deal, and the Republican…