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February 07, 2025 | The American Prospect

Hannah Story Brown

Op-Ed 2024 Election/TransitionClimate and EnvironmentDoug BurgumEthics in GovernmentInteriorTech

Trump’s Energy Czar Is All In on AI

When Donald Trump nominated North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to be his interior secretary, centrist to right-of-center “abundance agenda” advocates were jubilant. Politico reported, with typically amoral zeal, that Interior would be led by an “overnight rock star in the tech and energy worlds.” Burgum has a foot in both camps, as a former governor from fracking country with deep ties to fossil fuel executives like fracking magnate Harold Hamm, and a venture capitalist invested in software companies who sold his own software company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001.

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 18, 2024 | The American Prospect

Timi Iwayemi

Op-Ed CryptocurrencyEthics in GovernmentGovernanceGovernment Capacity

The Department of Government Efficiency Is Inefficient

DOGE is a new weapon in Trump’s ongoing war against the administrative state. But it’s important to remain clear-eyed about the value federal civil servants provide. These individuals help ensure the safety of our food, medicine, transportation, air, and water. They are also the backbone of our education, health care, and financial regulatory systems. There is no doubt that many Americans feel burned by their recent interactions with these systems, but federal employees are the wrong targets of their ire.

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. 

October 31, 2024

Court Accountability, Revolving Door Project, Take Back the Court, and True North Research

Memo 2024 ElectionEthics in GovernmentSupreme Court

Memo: Remembering Bush v. Gore

We cannot forget the fundamental wrongheadedness of the Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, which was possible only with the votes of at least two justices whose conflicts of interest merited recusal, one of whom reportedly “provided the early framework” for the decision before oral arguments were even presented to the Court.