In the year since President Trump began his second term, the United States has experienced an unprecedented wave of changes to the institutions designed to detect, deter, and document abuses of power. Inspectors general have been fired. Enforcement units have been disbanded. Career officials have been removed for pursuing oversight that conflicted with administration priorities. And new legal challenges before the Supreme Court threaten the independence of the agencies Congress created to guard against corruption.

Just Security’s “When Guardrails Erode” series documents these changes in real time through a comprehensive tracker and expert analysis, offering rigorous examination at the intersection of law, democracy, and accountability.

Join the project’s founders – Dani Schulkin, Just Security’s Director of Democracy Initiatives, and Amy Markopoulos, former Department of Justice senior federal fraud prosecutor – for a one-year assessment: what has changed, what patterns have emerged, and what the erosion of domestic accountability infrastructure means for the integrity of governance and financial regulation alike. The conversation will also look ahead, exploring whether the United States may need to import stronger anti-corruption guardrails, and what the second year of the administration may hold.