Spectrum News, December 2024
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, Skye Perryman is preparing legal challenges to a lot of what he wants to do. “It will be a really major effort and it’s going to be very hard,” she told Spectrum News in an interview in her Washington, D.C. office. Perryman heads the left-leaning advocacy group Democracy Forward. She’s helped assemble what’s called Democracy 2025, a coalition of more than 800 lawyers and advocates, and nearly 300 organizations, that will use lawsuits to fight Trump’s policy priorities and the conservative blueprint outlined in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. “We do believe that this is going to be a time where the courts are going to play, and going to have to play, a really essential role,” Perryman said.
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly tied Trump to Project 2025, and he consistently denied any connection to it. “And we know what a second Trump term would look like. It’s all laid out in Project 2025, written by his closest advisers,” Harris said during her acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in August. At their one debate the following month, Trump distanced himself from the project.
