After $1 Billion Failed To Stop Trump, Lib Donors Balk At Funding ‘Resistance’
Many of the groups that worked to obstruct President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office are hitting up donors to fund a redux, and being met with lukewarm responses after Vice President Kamala Harris failed to…
Many of the groups that worked to obstruct President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office are hitting up donors to fund a redux, and being met with lukewarm responses after Vice President Kamala Harris failed to defeat him with a $1 billion war chest, according to The New York Times.
Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and Center for Biological Diversity are ready to launch legal challenges against the second Trump administration starting on day one, mirroring the hundreds of lawsuits they filed during the president-elect’s first term, the NYT reported. The leaders of these nonprofits, however, are finding that they are short of the funds necessary to bankroll their ambitious “resistance” game plans.
“The response from donors has been shock, anger and depression, sprinkled in with a few checks,” CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren told NYT. “It’s not been a flood.”
CCR fought Trump’s ban on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries and accused the first Trump administration of supporting white nationalism.
Center for Biological Diversity executive director Kieran Suckling, meanwhile, wants to hire 12 new lawyers to support the group’s legal resistance to Trump’s proposed policies, according to the NYT.
“We can’t wait for the money to come in,” Suckling told the NYT. “We have to be prepared immediately.”
Her organization filed 266 lawsuits opposing the first administration, including a lawsuit to block Trump’s border wall under environmentalist pretenses,