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If you would like to add your name, please email press@protectdemocracy.org with your organizational affiliation. September 20, 2018 Rudolph Giuliani Giuliani Security & Safety LLC 200 Park Avenue, 39th Floor New York, NY 10166 Jay Sekulow American Center for Law and Justice P.O. Box 90555 Washington, DC 20090-0555 Dear Mr. Giuliani…
Every vote in the United States — for city council, state representative, or president — is cast using materials and equipment manufactured by third party vendors. There are vendors large and small, but the American election equipment industry is dominated by three vendors: ES&S, Hart, and Dominion. These…
On September 14, 2018, Protect Democracy filed a petition in the District Court for the District of Columbia seeking disclosure of the report transmitted by the grand jury investigating President Richard Nixon to the House Judiciary Committee in 1974. That report, which summarized grand jury material relevant to…
As reported by the Washington Post, today, Protect Democracy – along with the Brennan Center for Justice, Michael F. Crowley, and Benjamin Wittes – again asked DOJ and DHS to retract or correct a report they issued in January that portrays immigrants as the primary perpetrators of terrorism. (They aren’t.) Today’s letter is…
We are at a moment when the very concept of liberal democracy is being challenged around the world. From Turkey to Hungary to Poland, we have seen autocratic leaders seek to undermine the independence of courts and place themselves above the law. We have seen racist and nativist…
Today, the court ruled in Protect Democracy’s case seeking to compel the government to disclose its legal rationale for why the President had authority to order military strikes against the Syrian regime in April 2017. The court granted part of Protect Democracy’s request and denied another. Critically, the…
ALEXANDRIA, V.A. – U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady of the Eastern District of Virginia denied a motion to dismiss a voter intimidation and defamation lawsuit against J. Christian Adams and the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). The case will be moving forward. PILF is an organization headed by…
Yesterday, August 8, 2018, Protect Democracy filed an amicus brief in a New York appellate court in Zervos v. Trump, countering Mr. Trump’s argument that because he is President he cannot be sued in state court. The brief was filed on behalf of three constitutional law professors who…
President Trump and his legal team have been floating the argument that it’s both legal and proper for a presidential candidate to conspire with a foreign adversary to influence our elections. Read Protect Democracy and Stand Up Republic’s explanation of why this argument is wrong on the law and…
The Trump Administration this week doubled down on a faulty report issued earlier this year that transparently manipulated data to frame foreign-born people as terrorism threats – a study the administration has cited to justify its punitive, misguided immigration policies. On January 16, the U.S. Department of Justice…
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