Guardrails For Democracy
from The Reconstruction Papers Hosted by Liberal Currents
Written by attorney and mediator Judith Starr, read by Tessa Flannery. A proposal to rebuild the system of watchdog agencies that were put in place after Watergate, as well as to reform the Privacy Act. The toothlessness of these measures in the second Trump term has revealed vulnerabilities of the system that Congress has the tools to fix. Full text available.
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