Government Accountability
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President Donald Trump, joined by his eldest sons and the Trump Organization, has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Treasury Department. They are claiming the agencies failed to protect his confidential tax records and caused reputational and financial harm when the documents were leaked to the media.…
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Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, CEO of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), will officially step down Friday, marking the end of a troubled tenure that has drawn sharp legal and political scrutiny over the agency’s fiscal mismanagement and administrative failures. Her resignation, first announced in April, follows a decisive move by the Los…
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In 1973, in the heart of Montgomery, Alabama, two young Black sisters—Mary Alice and Minnie Relf—were subjected to an irreversible medical procedure they never consented to. At just 14 and 12 years old, the girls were forcibly sterilized by a federally funded clinic. Their mother, who could neither read nor write, had unknowingly signed a…
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The United States has been added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist of countries experiencing a significant decline in civic freedoms due to executive overreach under the Trump administration. The move has raised concerns among civil rights organizations, legal experts, and global democratic institutions about the potential erosion of constitutional freedoms. What is the CIVICUS Monitor…
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More than 20 federal workers have resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), citing concerns over the direction of the agency under Elon Musk’s leadership. The mass resignations, which included engineers, data scientists, and product managers, raise legal and ethical questions about federal employment standards, government accountability, and data security. Federal Workers Resign in…
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