Consistent with that vision, Congress enacted the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to allow oversight and accountability of governmental activities, imagining the prime intended users to be journalists.
In 2013, a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Shelby County v. Holder struck down important provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that specifically allowed the federal government to provide oversight of states and jurisdictions with a history of disenfranchising voters.
But to not act at all suggests they believe that Congress should not allow federal oversight of local elections no matter how discriminatory and unfair those elections are.
The administration asked Congress to move quickly on legislation that would allow federal oversight of many kinds of exotic instruments, including credit-default swaps, the insurance contracts that caused the near-collapse of the American International Group.
The government defeated a Labour motion in the Commons seeking access to documents laying out the policies behind the Windrush crisis, promising instead to allow independent oversight of an internal review into what went wrong.
Which countries they might be doesn't take a detective of Sherlock Holmes' prowess to work out; look for ones that haven't signed up to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea or ratified the UN biodiversity convention, and another that does not on principle allow international oversight of anything.
The provision allows federal oversight of election law changes in some places.
SCAF says that it alone will have that right until a new President is elected, and the council still has no intention of allowing civilian oversight of the military.
But administration officials are certain that Pakistan would not submit to the treaty's requirements, which would include dismantling its nuclear weapons arsenal and allowing international oversight of its government-run Khan laboratories, the center of the Pakistani proliferation network.
"Who else is going to seek redress for these people?" In the wake of the Rodney King beating, Congress passed a law allowing federal oversight of local police departments that had been found guilty of a pattern of depriving citizens of their rights.
