The legal advocacy group seeking to stop the Trump administration from making ICE raids in houses of worship now seeks to stop the White House from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Democracy Forward, based in Washington, D.C., filed suit…
CBF joins Quakers in lawsuit against ICE raids in churches
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has joined a coalition of Quakers as a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed last week demanding the Trump administration not allow ICE agents to conduct raids in houses of worship. The new policy of the Trump…
Democracy Forward succeeds in blocking Trump’s defunding of federal grants
Fresh on the heels of suing the Trump administration to stop ICE raids at churches, Democracy Forward filed another lawsuit that has led to a temporary hold on the administration’s effort to strip funding for nonprofits and educational institutions receiving…
Trump intends to traumatize his opponents, Perryman explains
The avalanche of Donald Trump’s first-week executive orders was intended to traumatize Americans as much as to implement new policies, according to Democracy Forward President Skye Perryman. In those first days, the president signed more than 35 directives on everything…
Quakers file suit to stop ICE raids at churches like what happened Sunday
One day after federal immigration agents arrested a man at a church in Georgia, a coalition of Quaker meetings filed suit in federal court to block the Department of Homeland Security raids at houses of worship. The new policy of…
Democracy 2025 coalition will challenge Trump and Project 2025
An alliance of leading pro-democracy organizations has launched a campaign to challenge anticipated Trump policies that pose economic, political and religious liberty threats to the nation. Democracy 2025 is a coalition of more than 280 legal and advocacy groups representing…
Religious liberty groups say they’re ready to oppose Trump
Donald Trump’s next presidency promises to be more frightening and damaging than the first given his threats against immigrants, democracy and religious liberty, said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “As outlined in Project 2025,…
Perryman testifies about dangers of Project 2025
Project 2025 is not a hypothetical proposal but is a reality already being tested in state legislatures and federal courts, Skye Perryman warned Congress Sept. 19. Perryman, a Baylor University alumus who leads Democracy Forward, was the only witness before…
Democracy Forward works to defend American values, disrupt Christian nationalists
Many Christians rejoiced after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. They cheered him on as he embraced Christian nationalist activists working overtime to marry church and state and to restrict the rights of non-Christians. Not Skye Perryman. She had…
Basic civil rights are under attack in the courts, Perryman warns
The U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022 demonstrates that LGBTQ equality and other basic civil rights are under threat by well-funded and highly coordinated political forces on the right, attorney and activist Skye Perryman said during…