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March 21, 2025

Emma Marsano

Blog PostMemo Department of Veterans AffairsTrump 2.0

Not Even Veterans Are Exempt From The Trump Firing Line

Over the past couple months, the Trump administration has fired approximately 2500 people at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides lifelong healthcare services and non-healthcare benefits such as disability compensation, home loans and life insurance to veterans. There has been widespread outrage among veterans in response to the administration’s actions thus far, but Trump and VA Secretary Doug Collins remain set on tightening the screws. 

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.