Maintaining the integrity of the Department of Justice

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Maintaining the integrity of the Department of Justice

Protect Democracy engages in litigation and advocacy to preserve the rule of law and prevent an authoritarian-minded executive from using government law enforcement powers as a political weapon.

January 13, 2025

  • Stopping the Consolidation of Power
  • Issue

How to reform domestic deployment authorities

There's an urgent need to pass reforms to how and when the National Guard may be deployed domestically, its command structure for domestic deployment, and the Guard’s legal authority when it acts.

September 10, 2024

  • Stopping the Consolidation of Power
  • Analysis
Democracy Crisis in the Making Cover 2023

A democracy crisis in the making

How state legislators are politicizing, criminalizing, and interfering with election administrators.

December 7, 2023

  • Protecting Elections
  • Reports
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The ARTICLE ONE Act 

The bipartisan ARTICLE ONE Act (H.R.3988/S.1912) would establish a necessary, meaningful check on the president’s use of emergency powers.

June 14, 2023

  • Stopping the Consolidation of Power
  • Legislation

A Democracy Crisis in the Making

How state legislators are politicizing, criminalizing, and interfering with election administrators.

June 8, 2023

  • Protecting Elections
  • Reports