Democracy 2025: the lawyer leading 'swift legal defenses' against new Trump threat
Source: The Guardian
Sat 28 Dec 2024 07.00 EST
Progressive groups are preparing a concerted fightback against Donald Trump and Project 2025, the vast far-right policy plan, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, which promises slashing reform to all areas of government when the president-elect returns to power next month.
Skye Perryman, chief executive of Democracy Forward, a national legal organization, will help lead that fightback via Democracy 2025, a new coalition of “litigation, advocacy and policy groups” designed “to deploy swift legal defenses” – an effort informed by, but meant to be stronger than, the scramble Trump prompted in 2017, the year Democracy Forward formed.
Perryman said: “After Trump took office, people in communities in the United States started experiencing a range of harms based on policies the administration was implementing. You had very visible ones, like the Muslim ban, which caused lawyers in airports to drop their suitcases and rush to the aid of people being kept out of the country, and organizations like the ACLU and others that sued on those policies, to other, less high-profile things, such as the Title 10 gag rule” that slashed family planning access for poorer women.
“But there were many things that the administration was doing that were a bit under the radar, but were nevertheless negatively impacting millions of Americans and in many instances were unlawful. So Democracy Forward was founded in response to that reality, the threats to people in the United States, but also [threats] to our rule of law and [to highlight] the overall way that the government was functioning in a different nature, of extreme and unlawful activity.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/28/skye-perryman-democracy-project-2025-trump
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