Strategy: Oversight and Accountability

This grant to The Constitution Project (TCP), a program within the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), will support POGO/TCP’s work to protect the courts. Through the “Defending Our Courts” campaign, POGO/TCP will develop messaging and build a coalition to restore and strengthen the public’s faith in the judiciary and build an infrastructure to resist any efforts to delegitimize or ignore a court’s decision.  

This grant will support Lawfare, a blog and project of the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. Lawfare facilitates research and robust analysis of national security issues, and Lawfare experts also use FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making. 

To provide continued support to the Alliance for Securing Democracy at The German Marshall Fund of the United States to identify and support the best methods of pushing back on foreign threats to our U.S. political system, whether they be through elections, misinformation, or attempts to interfere with our democratic institutions. 

This grant to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will support their project to assess and counter foreign technology-enabled threats to our judicial system. The project will engage stakeholders in off-the-record discussions of the threats presented, train individuals in the judicial system to counter these threats, and will culminate in a report with findings and recommendations for further action. 

This grant supports the Partnership for Public Service’s efforts to support constructive, bipartisan congressional oversight. It has two components: case studies on effective congressional oversight, and an analysis of how to more effectively engage career executive branch officials around oversight.

This project grant will allow Business Forward Foundation to activate its network of business leaders across the U.S. to focus on protecting the legitimacy and independence of the U.S. judicial system. This grant will support Business Forward Foundation’s efforts to identify, train, and support business leaders who will speak in favor of the rule of law and will prepare them to push back against attacks on the courts. 

This project grant to the online and quarterly publication National Affairs will support its work to develop voices who can stand up for democratic norms and the rule of law. The grant will allow National Affairs to host a series of public and private events that highlight the work of journalists, academics and writers and connect them with like-minded thinkers and the conservative public. 

This grant will support a sustained education and engagement effort to reinforce the critical role of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in today’s policy-making environment. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) will convene the nation’s top budget experts – many of whom have served in CBO leadership – to elevate a timely discussion about the need for the impartial, nonpartisan budget scorekeeping and analysis that CBO provides.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)’s Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project will assess and counter foreign technology-enabled threats to our judicial system by alerting members of the judiciary to threats from foreign adversaries, and train judges and their staff to mitigate the threats.