The Department of Justice advised President Donald Trump on Friday that he could appoint Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, to serve in the White House without running afoul of federal anti-nepotism laws. “Under section 105(a), the President can exercise his authority to appoint and fix the pay of employees in the White House Office “without regard to” such a law,” the OLC memo says. Some legal experts have expressed doubt that White House staff members were intended to be excluded from the anti-nepotism statute. “We doubt that Congress intended to include the White House or the Executive Office of the President,” a D.C. circuit judge wrote in the case. “So, for example, a President would be barred from appointing his brother as Attorney General, but perhaps not as a White House special assistant.

Source: Huffington Post January 21, 2017 17:05 UTC