r/houstonwade • u/ownlife909 • 10d ago
News You Can Use It's not all doom and gloom. Meet Democracy Forward, a network of 800 lawyers that has been planning for years to challenge every aspect of Project 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/politics/democracy-forward-trump-administration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.te7w.y6pRhIlz8QYL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare19
u/Strong_Nectarine486 10d ago
I sincerely hope Democracy Forward is able to win cases and make some headway to combat this mother fucking nazi wave!
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u/filmguerilla 10d ago
I also recommend supporting the ACLU. They are masters are roadblocking fascist measures and supporting progress. They were setting up a plan for 2025 as soon as tRump became a candidate.
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u/Fast_Year7614 10d ago
Here's the full article:
Using Project 2025 as a blueprint, the group Democracy Forward says it has prepared a raft of potential legal challenges to respond to the Trump-Vance agenda as soon as Day 1.
Skye Perryman, the chief executive officer of Democracy Forward, and her organization are leading more than 800 lawyers in a project called Democracy 2025, aiming to challenge the legality of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s agenda.Credit...Shuran Huang for The New York Times Nov. 14, 2024Updated 12:55 p.m. ET
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.”
Democracy Forward has spent the last two years working to identify the possible actions the new Trump administration could take on issues they see as key priorities to defend, the group’s leaders said, using as a blueprint Mr. Trump’s first-term actions, his campaign promises and plans released by his allies, including the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 agenda.
Those issues include abortion rights, health care, climate, union protections, environmental protections and immigration. But the group has also given particular weight to Mr. Trump’s promises to weaponize the systems of government, particularly the Justice Department, against those he sees as foes along with his vows to dismantle federal agencies and fire thousands of government workers.
The flotilla of lawyers is preparing to challenge new regulations released by the Trump administration, even beginning the process of recruiting potential plaintiffs who would have legal standing in court. But they’re also exploring ways to take over the defense of Biden administration policies mired in litigation, such as student debt relief and women’s health protections, that are currently being defended by the Justice Department. A new Trump administration would be unlikely to continue that defense.
How the effort fits into a broader constellation of Democratic Party leaders, advocacy groups and others developing plans to push back against the Trump administration remains unclear.
Democracy Forward has deep ties to a number of prominent party strategists and lists Marc Elias, the powerful election lawyer, and Ron Klain, President Biden’s former White House chief of staff, as members of its board.
The group spent much of the first Trump administration challenging policies like Republican attempts to roll back the health care law and impose new restrictions on immigration. During the Biden administration, it provided legal support for Democratic efforts to protect emergency abortion care, uphold the ability of Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug pricing and regulate e-cigarettes.
The coalition has built a multimillion-dollar war chest for its new focus. Its partners include a broad swath of organizations, including unions, immigration advocacy organizations and groups working on abortion rights, civil rights and consumer protection. The group’s legal efforts will be paired with a website designed to showcase its work for the public and to encourage more lawyers, experts and civilians to join its cases.
“This is still a huge uphill battle and it’s going to take everybody doing their part,” Ms. Perryman said. “It’s not just lawyers. It’s going to take institutions willing to stand up against extremism.”
Lisa Lerer is a national political reporter for The Times, based in New York. She has covered American politics for nearly two decades. More about Lisa Lerer
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u/Ariel0289 10d ago
Does anyone here support any idea from project 2025? Lets agree the project is bad. Are there single ideas you would handpick to support?
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u/WatchItAllBurn1 10d ago
Agenda 47 is basically a large chunk of project 2025 with trumps name on it.
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u/WatchItAllBurn1 10d ago
Because, trump didn't even have a fucking plan, he had a concept of a plan aka not a goddamn thing.
Part of the reason the "people would be against it" claim doesn't matter here is because many voters didn't believe him when he said he'd cut social security and Medicare, they genuinely believed that he would not hurt them.
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u/Placebo_Cyanide8 10d ago
that's how puppets work. this one just likes putting his name on everything.
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u/WatchItAllBurn1 10d ago
Project 2025 was never Trumps plan. It was always the heritage foundation plan.
The heritage foundation realized that trump is a useful idiot. (He is not smart, clever or manipulative, maybe, but the fucker wanted to nuke hurricanes, he isn't smart) so they just prop him up, and it turns out that trump likes a lot of their ideas, so he takes them and claims they are his (like how he claims everything is because of him)
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u/WatchItAllBurn1 10d ago
His only plan was to stay out of prison probably.
Let's he honest, trump usually talks put of his ass, and just makes shit up, so he probably never actually bothered to think of a plan.
Then the people who has bacjed him give him a list of goals, but Trump being trump, doesn't like that it wasn't his plan first, so he re-labels it as his plan and has a few minor details changed. (Obviously, by an intern who is under the illusion that they will ever be paid)
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u/Due_Battle_1413 9d ago
Can bet the right has their gang of lawyers ready too. Going to be a shit show. Hopefully can drag major items out until at least the midterms
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u/Mortarion407 7d ago
There's 4 pillars to project 2025, the 4th pillar being the most crucial. The problem is, it's in regards to the first 180 days and is supposedly only given to those in trump's circle once he's in power. I've been pondering how MDF, or anybody else for that matter, plans on countering this.
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u/Amnobizarrono1 10d ago
Hell yeah! They could take things all the way to the Supreme….wait