Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with.
September 16, 2026
Protect Democracy filed suit, challenging NIH’s practice of screening biomedical research grants against a shifting list of terms the Trump administration disfavors. The lawsuit is a class-action.
September 16, 2026
A federal court today blocked the Trump-Vance administration from using its unlawful “loyalty question” on federal civil service job applications.
September 11, 2026
Protect Democracy is suing the Department of Homeland Security for violating the constitutional rights of Portland residents.
September 9, 2026
Protect Democracy is suing to enforce a request for information about the framework the White House could use to review advanced AI models.
September 2, 2026
The unprecedented federal database violates the Constitution, the Privacy Act and the Social Security Act, exposing millions of Americans’ sensitive personal information.
September 1, 2026
We are suing the Trump administration over its unlawful efforts to compile American voters’ sensitive personal information into a massive centralized database.
September 1, 2026
The groups argue that the Trump administration has targeted the First Amendment expression of protesters, civil society, the free press, universities, and lawyers.
August 25, 2026
Protect Democracy sues ICE and CBP to enforce FOIA requests, seeking documents detailing the departments’ collaboration with content creators.
August 20, 2026
Protect Democracy and its partners are suing the Department of Homeland Security to challenge the agency’s new election-related conditions on anti-terrorism grants.
August 17, 2026