How to Combat the Dangers of Project 2025 (Democracy Docket-) VERY HOPEFUL MUST READ [View all]

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“Repeatedly throughout the Project 2025 chapters, they say to just move forward, go ahead and implement and worry about defending it in court later,” Simon said. “Expect legal challenges, because they know what they’re doing is unlawful.”

That’s exactly what Skye Perryman, president and CEO of the nonpartisan legal and public policy research nonprofit Democracy Forward, is ready for. Under Perryman’s leadership, Democracy Forward organized Democracy 2025 — a coalition of hundreds of lawyers from 280 different organizations to fight Project 2025 and the coming Trump administration in the courts.

“There’s a range of policies in Project 2025, and that the President-Elect has announced, that he’s seeking to pursue that we believe suffer from legal infirmities, and believe that legal challenges are going to be important,” Perryman told Democracy Docket. “There will be swift and robust legal opposition to some of the most destructive policies of Project 2025. That would include things like seeking to undermine our civil service, including trying to reimpose Schedule F.”

Unlike the first Trump administration, where many organizations like Democracy Forward were caught off guard by Trump’s win and initially unprepared to fight his policies in the courts, Perryman said that Democracy Forward has been quietly preparing for years for a second Trump administration. The coalition in Democracy 2025 is already gearing up to go to court to fight for environmental protections, reproductive rights, health care and a slew of other policies set forth by President Joe Biden’s administration.

The question that remains, though, is how the courts will rule in whatever legal challenges arise. Despite the conservative supermajority in the U.S. Supreme Court and the army of judges Trump appointed in his first term, Perryman is confident about the state of the judiciary.

“President Biden has appointed more than 200 pro-democracy judges since 2021,” she said. “The federal courts on day one of the second Trump administration are much better than they were on the last day of the first Trump administration.”

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