Ethics

Some of the two dozen state lawmakers across the country who have been accused of sexual harassment or misconduct since the start of 2017 and have resigned or been removed from office as of March 2018. ÐTop row from left: Alaska Rep. Dean Westlake, Arizona Rep. Don Shooter, California Assemblyman Matt Dababneh and Colorado Rep. Steve Lebsock. ÐMiddle row from left: Florida Sen. Jack Latvala, Mississippi Rep. John Moore, Nevada Sen. Mark Manendo and Oklahoma Rep. Dan Kirby. ÐBottom row from left are Oklahoma Sen. Ralph Shortey, Oklahoma Sen. Bryce Marlatt, South Dakota Rep. Mathew Wollmann and Utah Rep. Jon Stanard. (AP Photo)

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt waves to members of the audience as he arrives for a news conference at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, on his decision to scrap Obama administration fuel standards. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres, left, and Housing Rights Initiative Executive Director Aaron Carr address a news conference outside Kushner Cos. headquarters in New York, March 19, 2018. The pair called for an investigation into a report by AP and a tenants' rights watchdog that Jared Kushner's family real estate company routinely filed false paperwork declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned in New York when it actually had hundreds. (AP Photo / Richard Drew)

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2017, photo, Rep. Jon Stanard, R-St. George, votes on the House floor, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. The Utah House of Representatives is investigating whether a lawmaker who abruptly resigned used a state-issued cellphone and hotel room paid for with taxpayer money to arrange trysts with a prostitute. House Speaker Greg Hughes declined to comment on a Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, report in British newspaper the Daily Mail that former Republican Rep. Stanard twice hired a prostitute in 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Visitors, Florida Senators and their staff members look at the new Florida Senate chamber in Tallahassee, Fla., Monday, Nov. 21, 2016. Florida has some of the nation's strongest open-records and open-meetings laws, but that did not stop lawmakers froim trying to tinker with them. In 2017 they passed 19 new exmptions to the Sunshine Law., the second most in at least two decades. (Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Donald Trump Jr., left, is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel in New York, July 11, 2017. Trump Jr. eagerly sought help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his father's campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to emails he released publicly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Video of U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed as workers wait for potential investors during an event promoting EB-5 investment in a Kushner Companies development, at a hotel in Shanghai, China, May 7, 2017. The real estate investment opportunity, pitched by the sister of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is part of a controversial American visa program that has proven irresistible to tens of thousands of Chinese. (AP Photo)