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January 30, 2025

Press Release Congressional OversightIndependent Agencies

Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump Administration’s Illegal Firings, Implores Congress To Conduct Oversight

Donald Trump has now illegally fired multiple Democratic members of independent agency boards, including Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board and Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, years before their actual term expiry dates. In so doing, Trump has demonstrated yet again, an abject disregard for the basic rule of law, as well as an apparent willingness to engage in authoritarian-esque hostile takeovers of any part of the government able to provide a check to his power. 

December 06, 2024

Jeff Hauser

Press Release Ethics in GovernmentJudiciarySupreme Court

RELEASE: Justice Gorsuch’s Recusal Shows Other Justices Have Missed Recusals

On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself from Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado. While he did not disclose a reason for recusal, the decision followed revelations from Accountable.US that Gorsuch’s billionaire benefactor, Philip Anschutz, stood to benefit from the case. Importantly, one of Anschutz’s companies filed an amicus brief outlining its interests in the case.

November 12, 2024

Jeff Hauser

Press Release 2024 Election/TransitionExecutive BranchIndependent Agencies

Immediate Action Must Be Taken On Independent Agency Nominations

Democrats have resoundingly lost the White House, the Senate, and may soon lose the House. The Party has 68 days to ensure the presence of public advocates on numerous important governing bodies before the incoming Trump administration fully delivers on its promised systematic attack on governance, accountability and regulation. 

November 12, 2024

Timi Iwayemi Jeff Hauser

Press Release Ethics in GovernmentExecutive BranchRevolving Door

Watchdog Group Will Closely Monitor The Harmful Material Impacts Of The Trump Administration’s Likely Mismanagement Of The Federal Executive Branch

The initial series served as a reminder of the first Trump administration’s utter indifference to the public interest. This time around, the Revolving Door Project will be on hand to provide real time, clear-eyed analyses of the President-elect’s approach towards governance, staffing, ethics and critically, the material impact of his pro-corporate attitudes.