What's She Hiding Now?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Actually, no. The Hatch Act does not apply to the Legislative Branch, nor to certain exceptions in the Executive Branch (persons in the Executive Office of the President and appointees approved by the Senate, with the specific exception of the Secretary of State (it applies to the SoS)).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939

She was Secretary of State, Pat, and so has to comply with the Hatch Act.

From your Wiki link:

It provided that persons below the policy-making level in the executive branch of the federal government must not only refrain from political practices that would be illegal for any citizen, but must abstain from "any active part" in political campaigns, using this language to specify those who are exempt:[5]

(i) an employee paid from an appropriation for the Executive Office of the President; or
(ii) an employee appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose position is located within the United States, who determines policies to be pursued by the United States in the nationwide administration of Federal laws.

The language was crafted so that the Secretary of State was covered by the Act's restrictions on political activity.