With Donald Trump regularly beating Joe Biden in national and swing state polls, a “loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers is quietly devising plans” to stop the America First leader from implementing his Agenda 47 policies.
“We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to,” explained Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection executive director Mary McCord.
Democracy Forward president Skye Perryman said her organization was also “preparing for litigation and preparing to use every tool in the toolbox that our democracy provides to provide the American people an ability to fight back” against a second Trump administration.
“We believe this is an existential moment for American democracy and it’s incumbent on everybody to do their part,” she added – although a reelected Trump would have a democratic mandate, while her organization has none.
Anti-Trump activists and nonprofits are already using lawfare tactics to try and stop Trump from running for the presidency at all, successfully having him removed, at least temporarily, from primary ballots in Colorado and Maine.
The “network” is particularly concerned about Trump using the military to execute his policies, which include immediately securing the border and mass deportations of illegal aliens, by invoking the Insurrection Act.
The leading Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith, issued a crass warning that Trump is “going to be one creative motherf***er when it comes to trying to figure out how to abuse [power].”
“Whatever your guess is, open up your imagination a little more,” he said.
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