The Atlantic: Why, Yes, The Point Of Lawfare Is To Overturn Any Elections Republicans Win
Joy Pullmann
Democrat Party leaders invited an Atlantic reporter to tell the world their current political strategy is to use U.S. courts to reject the consequences of losing a presidential election. “The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working,” say Michael Scherer’s Sept. 2 headline and subhed, is “Lawsuits, lawsuits, and more lawsuits.”
The vast majority of the nearly 400 lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration in its first seven months, Scherer reports, did not organically arise from American needs and on-the-ground realities. No, they were pre-planned in advance, and plaintiff cutouts recruited from Democrat constituencies including activist groups and labor unions. These lawsuits are cut-and-paste operations designed to deny American voters the results of electing a Republican president, using complicit blue-state judges who care nothing for the rule of law or Constitution.
“This backbone of the Trump resistance has as much in common with political organizing and investigative reporting as it does with legal theory,” Scherer writes, unashamedly describing the lawsuits as overt political operations created years in advance of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. “… Attorneys general would represent states, advocacy groups such as Public Citizen and the ACLU would focus on their areas of expertise, and the unions would gather stories from their members and identify plaintiffs who could show harm. Atop this infrastructure, new organizations took shape, bringing in tens of millions of dollars to pay for it all.”
This article recalls the
infamous Time article by Molly Ball describing how a similar — and surely overlapping — constellation of well-funded leftist groups and politicians “fortifi[ed]” the 2020 election with lawsuits and other efforts pushing unreliable voting methods.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/04/the-atlantic-why-yes-the-point-of-lawfare-is-to-overturn-any-elections-republicans-win/
