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

Skye Perryman and her progressive coalition are preparing to fight in court and in the public square against Project 2025 and other foes

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.