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Project 2025 – Talking Points to Protect our Democratic Institutions

Project 2025 embodies an agenda led by the Heritage Foundation to revise, reorganize and eliminate vast portions of the statutes, rules and norms that were built over decades, and that have guided our democracy and preserved our freedoms during Republican and Democratic administrations alike. 

All of us, and lawyers in particular, have a role to play in discussing with others the nature of the proposed changes and how they endanger our freedom. To facilitate those discussions, Lawyers Defending American Democracy's “Talking Points” series highlights changes that Project 2025 is intent on making and their potential effect.

ETHICS COMPLAINT 

Update: Webster Texas Supreme Court Brief and Oral Argument

As reported previously, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and First Assistant Brent Webster have sought to dismiss, based on separation of powers and sovereign immunity,  State Bar ethics proceedings against each of them for misrepresentations to the U.S. Supreme Court in their lawsuit to overturn the 2020 presidential election. LDAD and 16 distinguished Texas lawyers filed amicus briefs in the respective Courts of Appeals in the Paxton and Webster cases. Both courts rejected the separation of powers and sovereign immunity arguments. In the Webster opinion, the court made several points that LDAD had argued in its brief.

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