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Anne Tindall

Special Counsel

Anne Tindall is Special Counsel at Protect Democracy where she works to ensure that elections are free and fair, to prevent political violence, and to secure accountability for abuses of power at the federal and state level. She has led several of Protect Democracy’s most successful litigation and legislative advocacy projects on issues ranging from free speech and religious liberty to preserving Congress’s ability to check executive power. Anne spearheads the organization’s advocacy in North Carolina. Prior to joining Protect Democracy, she held senior litigation and investigative positions in the executive branch, on Capitol Hill, and in private practice. Anne is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The University of Texas School of Law. She clerked for Judge Stephanie K. Seymour on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

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The Senate Inquiry Into the Supreme Court Finally Has Some Teeth (opens a new window)

  • December 1, 2023
  • Slate

In this opinion piece, Protect Democracy’s Anne Tindall and Grant Tudor argue that “Congress enjoys an expansive constitutional authority to investigate just about any matter it chooses, and to enforce that authority through compulsory tools like subpoenas. The Supreme Court has explained that the scope of this investigative power ‘is as penetrating and far-reaching as the potential power to enact and appropriate under the Constitution.’ So long as the inquiry could plausibly relate to an issue ‘on which legislation could be had’—in this case, efforts to pass new judicial ethics laws—Congress is well within constitutional bounds to exercise its investigative muscles.”