"Perryman said the stakes go beyond courtroom victories. The real challenge is demonstrating that the public truly holds the power to counter and often stop the White House's seemingly unstoppable march toward authoritarian rule. "The real thing for us was, how are we going to show people that you actually still get to be in charge in your country-the people get to be in charge," Perryman told moderator and host of the podcast Pod Save America, Jon Favreau."
"Since January, the Trump administration has governed with a "flood-the-zone" approach, using chaos as a tool to overwhelm opponents and bury truth. The president and his political appointees have issued a dizzying barrage of executive orders, funding cuts, regulations, and legal distortions aimed at eroding not just resistance, but the foundations of civil society itself."
Since January the Trump administration has used a "flood-the-zone" approach, deploying chaos, executive orders, funding cuts, regulations, and legal distortions to overwhelm opponents and weaken civil society. Organizations and legal nonprofits have responded with a strategy described as "rule-of-law shock and awe," filing frequent, aggressive lawsuits to expose and halt abuses of power. Leaders of these nonprofits have built an infrastructure to sue the administration repeatedly, often successfully. The litigation strategy aims not only for courtroom wins but to demonstrate that the public retains power and can block authoritarian moves, building cross-partisan alliances to defend democratic institutions.
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