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Coalition of 280 U.S. organizations launches 'Democracy 2025', a multimillion-dollar legal effort to 'combat threats to people, democracy expected in Trump-Vance administration' (www.democracy2025.org)

submitted 1 week ago by tardigrada to c/politics

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Democracy 2025, resourced by Democracy Forward, includes a growing roster of 280+ legal, expert, and advocacy organizations and 800+ individuals representing millions of people and communities across the country. Members include litigators, strategists, advocates, academics and policy experts, and faith leaders who are prepared to challenge expected governmental actions that will harm people, communities, and our democracy. The actions the groups are prepared to respond to include efforts to purge and target our nation’s civil service, roll back health care access, harm immigrant communities, undermine labor protections, and dismantle core functions of the U.S. government.

Members of the coalition have built a multimillion-dollar war chest across organizations to support Democracy 2025 members taking legal action, representing people and communities pro bono, and creating resources for the broad pro-democracy community.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you, Dem25 for thinking and preparing ahead.

[–] DdCno1 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doing this before the last election would have been thinking ahead. Now they are just reacting.

[–] Powderhorn 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Announcing something with 280 orgs already on board and spinning something up are very different phases of the process. And announcing before the election made zero sense.

The release was issued Nov. 13, eight days after the election and including a weekend. I'd be very surprised if incipient protoalliances that led to this didn't start early in Trump's first term. If you can go live on a website in a week and have execution plans across 280 of anything, you're not reacting.

[–] tardigrada 3 points 1 week ago

@DdCno1 @Powderhorn

The organization behind this is Democracy Forward, founded 2016.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don't need lawyers.

We need soldiers.

The law ends the day he gets into office.

[–] Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But we also need lawyers. If only to slow shit down.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I mean, OK, they definitely slowed down the fascists getting their days in court, receiving justice; and the realization that the hope in the justice system, which in it's entirety, is a complete farce not based on equality or fairness, was a delusion.