Lisa Lerer, in the NYTimes:
Democracy Forward, a liberal-leaning legal organization that frequently battled the first Trump administration in court, on Thursday unveiled a large-scale new effort aimed at thwarting President-elect Donald J. Trump’s second-term agenda from his first day in office.
More than 800 lawyers at 280 organizations have begun developing cases and workshopping specific challenges to what the group has identified as 600 “priority legal threats” — potential regulations, laws and other administrative actions that could require a legal response, its leaders said. The project, called Democracy 2025, aims to be a hub of opposition to the new Trump administration.
Unlike in 2017, when Democratic lawyers were unprepared for the onslaught of conservative policies, the intent is to be ready to unleash a flurry of lawsuits immediately.
“We’re leveling up and lawyering up,” Skye Perryman, the chief executive of the organization, said. “This wasn’t something that just everybody woke up the day after the election and started to plan.”
This article assumes the rule if law will prevail.
ReplyDeleteBut that is not guaranteed.
With control of all countervailing branches of government
it becomes possible to change the rules.
Recall the Enabling Act of 1933 Nazi Germany?
It is true that the Constitution
was already "old and quaint"
like the Geneva Conventions under GW Bush.
Thank you for highlighting emerging organizations: "the resistance", Democracy 2025, and Democracy Forward. Now that we know their names, we can follow their activities, join them, and begin to gather strength.
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