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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Peter Stone in Washington

Legal veterans lead fightback against Trump’s ‘full-out assault on democracy’

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Trump at an event at the White House last month. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

A cluster of advocacy groups that boast veteran lawyers, voting experts and ex-judges have expanded legal challenges to Donald Trump’s authoritarian executive orders on voting and other presidential actions they see as a “war” on the rule of law in the US.

Heavy legal opposition to Trump’s two executive orders on elections to curb voting rights and supplant the authority of states on election matters has come from the Democracy Defenders Fund, the Campaign Legal Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and kindred groups.

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