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elleng

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 12:31 AM Oct 2025

The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working

Lawsuits, lawsuits, and more lawsuits

Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department’s revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom. Norm Eisen, a former attorney for Barack Obama’s White House, had convened lawyers, Democratic communications strategists, a neoconservative Trump critic, and a former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party. This one was big, Eisen said from his parked car in Baltimore, where he had traveled for a lawsuit to overturn President Donald Trump’s cuts to AmeriCorps. They should move quickly.

“The Trump-Epstein story is the story of the Trump administration—corruption benefiting his rich and powerful cronies at the expense of vulnerable people,” Eisen explained as I lurked on the July call with everyone’s permission.'>>>

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/trump-legal-resistance-lawsuits-norm-eisen/684071/?

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The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working (Original Post) elleng Oct 2025 OP
The only way that continues to work is if trump and company choose to follow the law, Bayard Oct 2025 #1
Archived past the paywall. usonian Oct 2025 #2

Bayard

(30,275 posts)
1. The only way that continues to work is if trump and company choose to follow the law,
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 12:37 AM
Oct 2025

And a judge's decision. That's not a given anymore.

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