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Time to Save Ourselves
Author: BobR
Date: 02/05/2025 14:18:06
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the deluge of Executive Orders that Anal Orange was blasting out. That, plus his rogues gallery of Cabinet picks, was jaw-dropping in its massive middle finger to the rest of the country. Democrats in Congress still seem mostly ineffectual, channeling Neville Chambers's ghost in their acquiescence (House Rep Jamie Raskins being one of the few bright lights).
So that leaves it to the private sector do something. And doing something, it appears, is their #1 focus at the moment:
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As most of you readers already know, I work for a law firm. I expect it will be a profitable year, as various law firms are called upon to assist with this work. Lawyers often get a bad rap, but those who don't work the personal injury / divorce circuit can actually be the soldiers that those without any power need.
Find a non-profit doing the work, and give them some love (of the monetary kind). They are going to need it.
So that leaves it to the private sector do something. And doing something, it appears, is their #1 focus at the moment:
A new coalition of nonprofits came together overnight to challenge a seemingly sweeping order from the Trump administration last week pausing trillions of dollars in federal funding. They succeeded in blocking that order, at least for now.
It's the start of what nonprofits expect will be a deluge of court actions, as civil litigation promises to be a powerful tool civil society groups plan to use to push back on President Donald Trump’s policies.
“There will be an avalanche of litigation to stop unlawful activity,” said Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which brought the nonprofit coalition’s suit against the federal funding freeze. A judge ruled Monday to allow their lawsuit, one of many filed in the first weeks of the new administration, to move forward and extended a temporary restraining order.
More than a dozen federal lawsuits have already been filed against President Trump and his administration by a wide range of nonprofits, from several Quaker organizations to the consumer rights group Public Citizen to New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support.
As most of you readers already know, I work for a law firm. I expect it will be a profitable year, as various law firms are called upon to assist with this work. Lawyers often get a bad rap, but those who don't work the personal injury / divorce circuit can actually be the soldiers that those without any power need.
Find a non-profit doing the work, and give them some love (of the monetary kind). They are going to need it.
