Ethics in Government Acts of Kangaroo court

What is the Ethics in Government Act of 1978?

The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 is a United States federal law that was passed in the wake of the Nixon Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre. It created mandatory, public disclosure of financial and employment history of public officials and their immediate family.

What is the independent counsel law?
United States Office of the Independent Counsel was an independent prosecutor — distinct from the Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice — that provided reports to the United States Congress under 28 U.S.C. § 595.

The public law duty to consult is one aspect of the principle that public authorities should exercise fairness in the exercise of their functions. Where the duty to consult is imposed by statute, then the procedure to be adopted is also likely to be prescribed by the legislation

28 CFR Part 600 - GENERAL POWERS OF SPECIAL COUNSEL
64 FR 37042, July 9, 1999, unless otherwise noted

A kangaroo court is a judicial tribunal or assembly that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides.

The emphasis of the Gunning Principles is on 'fairness'. The process must be substantively fair and have the appearance of fairness. The Gunning Principles state that: Consultation must take place when the proposal is still at a formative stage: Decision-makers cannot consult on a decision that has already been made.

Those principles, known as the "Gunning principles" are:

Consultation should occur when proposals are at a formative stage;

Consultations should give sufficient reasons for any proposal to permit intelligent consideration;

Consultations should allow adequate time for consideration and response;

The Miller Act (ch. 642, Sec. 1-3, 49 stat. 793,794, codified as amended in Title 40 of the United States Code) requires prime contractors on some government construction contracts to post bonds guaranteeing both the performance of their contractual duties and the payment of their subcontractors and material suppliers.

The Act was originally enacted as the Heard Act in 1894. That act established a single performance and payment bond that "did afford some protection to... unpaid subcontractors and materialmen, but it was fraught with substantive and procedural limitations," and it was superseded by the Miller Act of 1935.