Whereas the strength of the American constitutional system designed in 1787 in Philadelphia is the National Government’s separated powers in which the legislative, executive, and judicial branches serve as checks and counterbalances on each other, and fidelity to the rule of law is the highest value and responsibility; Whereas United States intelligence agencies concluded in 2016 that Russia was behind an effort to tip the scale of the United States Presidential election against Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with a state-authorized campaign of cyberattacks and fake news stories planted on social media; Whereas, in late July 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails, which the United States intelligence community would attribute to the Russian Government; Whereas an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) issued in January 2017 concluded that Russian efforts to influence the 2016 United States Presidential election represented the most recent expression of the Russian Government’s longstanding objective to undermine the United States-led Western Alliance and international democratic order, and that these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations; Whereas the ICA assessed that Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin ordered a disinformation campaign in 2016 aimed at influencing the outcome of the United States Presidential election and that Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the United States democratic process, undermine the Presidential campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and facilitate the election of President Putin’s preferred candidate, Donald J. Trump