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Deana El-Mallawany

Counsel & Director of Impact Programs, Democratic Resilience

Deana Kim El-Mallawany oversees Protect Democracy’s work to prevent the threat of another autocratic presidency from dismantling our democracy, as well as its long-term work to drive the structural change needed to secure the multi-racial democracy of tomorrow. She also has led litigation and advocacy strategies to secure accountability for abuses of executive power. Before joining Protect Democracy, Deana served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and as an associate at a large law firm. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before law school, Deana was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Cairo, Egypt.

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That combination points to a possible second Trump term defined by both fewer constraints and more challenges to the traditional constitutional order. “What should most alarm Americans who believe that somehow ‘the system will hold’ is that for all the red hats and red ties Republican electeds don to appease their leader, they seem to have no red lines,” Deana El-Mallawany, a senior counsel for the bipartisan group Protect Democracy, told me in an email. “Which suggests that the most radical things Trump has hinted at—being a dictator (for a day), tearing up the constitution—which seem unthinkable today could just as easily come to pass in the very near future.”