Waters Pushes For Speedy Trial

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is pushing the House ethics committee to publicize the allegations being charged against her and to set a date for her ethics trial before November’s midterm elections.

In a letter to the committee, Waters had this to say:

“I am deeply concerned by the Committee’s failure to announce a date for a public hearing in its most recent press release,” she wrote. “I feel strongly that further delay in the scheduling of the hearing violates the fundamental principles of due process, denies my constituents the opportunity to evaluate this case, and harms my ability to defend my integrity.”

The committee announced earlier this week that it was charging the California Democrat with ethics violations but did not specify exactly what these charges entail.

It is largely speculated that these charges will likely have to do with meetings Waters set up between then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and a bank that her husband owned $250,000 of stock in.