Just when it seemed that the Dem resistance was tuned out, former Biden-Harris officials are launching on Inauguration Day a new legal response center to bolster the fight against President-elect Donald Trump’s impending executive orders, Politico reports. The new effort, funded by the national legal organization Democracy Forward — formed in 2017 during Trump’s first administration — will analyze the incoming president’s executive orders to support legal and political challenges to his agenda, according to plans shared with POLITICO. The group, which announced the effort Thursday, has already identified more than 200 of what it classifies as emerging threats related to the incoming president’s expected executive orders.
A slate of recent officials from across the Biden administration are joining Democracy Forward as senior counsel to support the effort: Karianne Jones, former litigation counsel for the Kamala Harris campaign and former OMB assistant general counsel; Mike Martinez, the outgoing deputy general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management and former chief of staff to the assistant attorney general; Dan McGrath, outgoing senior counsel at the Department of Labor, Office of Solicitor; and Kevin Friedl, outgoing senior counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Emily Ross, outgoing executive secretariat at the Department of Justice, will join as deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the president and CEO. The response center — which will coordinate with outside groups, litigators, strategists and policy experts — will house its work on the Democracy2025.org website. The team plans to share information about Trump’s actions, catalog them on the site and track legal challenges.
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