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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Democracy 2025: the lawyer leading ‘swift legal defenses’ against new Trump threat

A woman speaks at a podium marked with 'Student debt cancellation is legal', gesturing her hands
Skye Perryman speaks as student loan borrowers and advocates gather on 28 February 2023 in Washington DC. Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for People's Rally to Cancel Student Debt

Progressive groups are preparing a concerted fightback against Donald Trump and Project 2025, the vast far-right policy plan, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, which promises slashing reform to all areas of government when the president-elect returns to power next month.

Skye Perryman, chief executive of Democracy Forward, a national legal organization, will help lead that fightback via Democracy 2025, a new coalition of “litigation, advocacy and policy groups” designed “to deploy swift legal defenses” – an effort informed by, but meant to be stronger than, the scramble Trump prompted in 2017, the year Democracy Forward formed.

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