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“This confirmation is insulting, and it should alarm everyone that an election denier is now in charge of enforcing the Voting Rights Act, that an anti-LGBTQ+ activist is now tasked with protecting the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people in America, and that yet another one of Trump’s personal lawyers is now in a leadership role at the nation’s signature agency for the enforcement of our federal civil rights laws,” the group wrote.

Still, those intervening developments have done little to quell the public’s fears over the influence Project 2025 is having on Trump’s second term, particularly with respect to its plans to limit abortion access, crack down on LGBTQ+ rights, and concentrate even greater power in the hands of the presidency.

For instance, rather than seeking USAID’s wholesale elimination, as the administration has pursued, “Mandate for Leadership” calls merely for scaling back its actions and purging any so-called woke elements of the agency’s agenda, such as the promotion of LGBTQ+ rights abroad.

Gen. Rob Bonta’s office have been working at a blistering pace to draft and file complex legal arguments opposing Trump’s policies on immigration, the economy, tariffs, LGBTQ+ rights, federal employee layoffs, government oversight, the allocation of federal funding to states and localities, the limits of the president’s executive authority and the slash-and-burn budgetary tactics of his billionaire advisor Elon Musk.

I think the Supreme Court will likely say that it is indoctrination for a school to simply have books in the classroom that feature LGBTQ+ characters—but that it’s no problem at all to have state funding go directly to Catholic schools that will actively indoctrinate students with the Catholic faith.