Inside the legal plans by foes of Donald Trump and Project 2025 to fight his second-term agenda

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Now, the Washington Democrat - who is running for governor - has spent the last year pulling together a legal playbook so that his successor will be ready to hit the ground running in the event Trump wins again.
47% : The ACLU and other groups are brainstorming how to build out the infrastructure that would connect federal employees to legal representation if they are subjected to harassment, retaliation or other types of unlawful conduct by their superiors.Memos and matrixesDemocracy Forward, an organization that formed in 2017 and that brought more than 100 court cases during the first Trump term, has crafted a so-called "threat matrix" to chart out a variety of far-right proposals, such as ending birthright citizenship, withholding Medicaid funding from states that require insurance plans to cover abortion and limiting adoption by same-sex couples.
44% : The Supreme Court is far more conservative now that it was when Trump was inaugurated in 2017.
31% : Those kind of preparations - researching case law, writing memos, shifting around staff - are being done across the country by liberal advocacy groups, blue states and other organizations that fought Trump in court.
27% : When Trump took office, her organization did not have any in-house lawyers.
27% : Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, and some policies have become such a political liability for the Republican candidate that his campaign chiefs celebrated the news this week that the project's director, Paul Dans, was stepping down amid pushback the policy agenda was getting from Trump and his campaign.
26% : (Trump signed an executive measure putting Schedule F into effect near the end of his first term, but it was not fully implemented by the time he left office.)
24% : Though the 2016 analysis of Trump's plans was "cursory," Romero said, it was still pivotal in his organization's ability to file a lawsuit the day after Trump signed the 1.0 version of the Muslim ban.
16% : (Trump himself has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 but many of his policies and goals overlap.)"Honestly, the Trump administration was often sloppy in the way they rolled out these executive orders, including the first Muslim travel ban," Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson told CNN, referring to the Trump ban on migrants from several Muslim-majority countries that was the target of one of nearly 100 lawsuits brought by the Evergreen State against the Trump administration.

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