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Following is a joint statement by Abbe David Lowell of Lowell & Associates, and Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding the Trump administration's attempt to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Susan Tsui Grundmann has moved to dismiss her lawsuit challenging her removal by President Trump from her position on the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), an independent federal agency that adjudicates labor management disputes between federal agencies, unions and employees.

Democracy Defenders Fund today released a series of essays (Autocracy vs. Democracy in America: A First Year Report) evaluating the Trump administration’s assault on our democracy and how the courts, institutions and civil society met the threats. Following are statements by Norm Eisen and Susan Corke reflecting on the first year of the Trump administration.

A federal judge ruled today that the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) would violate a court injunction issued earlier this year.

Democracy Defenders Fund (DDF) today called for an investigation into Caroline Pham, the former Acting Chairman of the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC), over potential criminal ethics violations. The complaint asks the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., and the FBI to investigate whether Pham violated federal conflict-of-interest laws. It alleges she personally directed the CFTC’s cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement policies while she was also negotiating future employment with MoonPay. MoonPay is a digital-asset payments company that describes itself as “a key driver behind mainstream crypto adoption.”

Today, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Democracy Defenders Fund, and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller filed a motion to intervene in EEOC v. The University of Pennsylvania on behalf of five organizations affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. The groups petitioning the court to join the proceedings represent Jewish faculty and student employees who oppose the non-consensual release of organizational membership rosters and members’ personal information based on the First Amendment right to associate confidentially, which directly impacts the freedoms of speech, association, privacy, and religious liberty.

A new report from Democracy Defenders Fund warns that President Trump’s personal involvement in a Treasury-backed stablecoin creates unprecedented risk to the U.S. financial system, directly entangling a sitting president’s personal financial interests with the stability of the U.S. Treasury market.

Following is a statement by Susan Corke, executive director, and Norman Eisen, executive chair at Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding the Department of Justice’s “criminal” investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has submitted an amicus brief in Watson v. Republican National Committee before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the states, not the federal government, set election law, and that it would be incredibly harmful to LULAC members, and voters across the country, if ballots are required to be received by Election Day.

This week, Democracy Defenders Fund (DDF) launched two parallel legal campaigns in response to President Trump's invasion of Venezuela and seizure of the country's oil.

DDF today requested that the DOJ Office of Inspector General conduct a comprehensive audit into the DOJ’s failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. While the legislation required the files to be released by December 19, the DOJ has released less than 1% of the documents and records by their own admission.

DDF and a team of outside legal counsel are actively reviewing the Department of Justice’s latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. As has been widely reported, the materials produced are incomplete and do not comply with the requirements Congress set forth in the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Following is a statement by Amb. (ret) Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, on the Department of Justice’s release of files relating to the Epstein investigation, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Following is a statement by Amb. (ret.) Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, in response to the federal jury verdict convicting Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan of felony obstruction while acquitting her on a misdemeanor charge.

Following is a statement by Virginia Canter, counsel and director for ethics and anticorruption at Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding the announcement that Caroline Pham, Acting Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, accepted post-government employment with the cryptocurrency payment platform MoonPay.

A federal judge has indicated she will order the Trump-Vance administration to nullify the terminations of federal employees at four federal agencies, which were implemented in clear violation of the bipartisan law that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

DDF filed two formal complaints with federal oversight authorities, warning that recent actions by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) threaten the agency’s statutory role as a nonpartisan guardian of election integrity and risk undermining public confidence in the federal election system.

A bipartisan group of three former WH ethics chiefs today filed a complaint urging the DOJ's OPR to investigate whether the OLC manipulated the law in a secret legal memo that has been used to justify U.S. military strikes that killed civilians on boats from Venezuela in international waters.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal in a case challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order that seeks to deny U.S. citizenship to many babies born in the United States.

DDF filed a complaint with HHS OIG urging an investigation into whether BlinkRx, linked to Donald Trump Jr., got nonpublic information giving it an unfair edge in bidding to run the Trump admin’s new TrumpRx platform.

Following is a statement by Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding a federal grand jury’s refusal to indict Attorney General Letitia James.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) on Wednesday filed a supplemental complaint and an emergency request for a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration from carrying out mass terminations of federal workers in clear violation of legislation passed by Congress that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

DDF has expanded its lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Department of Justice over the refusal to release the Trump-Epstein files.

Following is a joint statement from from Abbe David Lowell, Gerry Krovatin, and Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding today’s 3rd Circuit decision that Alina Habba’s appointment to U.S. Attorney of New Jersey was unlawful.

Following is a statement by Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding today’s ruling by a federal court that Lindsey Halligan’s appointment to U.S. Attorney was unlawful.