That's a super-tough question.
Everyone on the adjudication committee is going to bring their own political biases to it. Giving a lot of independence to universities and to the adjudication committees is step one. Step two is also just depoliticizing academia. There's no easy way to do that, and this isn't entirely federal jurisdiction, but it's getting universities to adopt [Technical difficulty—Editor] so that [Technical difficulty—Editor] in these departments themselves aren't pushing a political agenda. It's pushing for political diversity in universities so that at least people have to engage with arguments from all sides.
I don't really care about the political orientation of a physicist, but maybe in the interpretive social sciences and humanities this is a little more important. I think pushing for political diversity in universities will help safeguard political independence, but that's very tricky to do. How do you do that without basically discriminating based on political beliefs, which I'm not super-comfortable with? It's a tricky problem.
I'm happy to offer some other ideas and write them up.