Legal analysis released by Legal Defense Fund highlights specific harms rightwing plan poses to Black communities

Project 2025, the 900-page ultra-conservative roadmap that details how the former president Donald Trump and his allies would restructure the US government if he is elected, has specific implications for Black Americans, according to a new report.

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), an organization that fights for racial justice, recently released the most in-depth legal analysis of Project 2025’s impact on Black communities. It highlights how Black Americans would be harmed due to policies that would weaken anti-discrimination laws; dismantle the Department of Education; threaten Black political power; increase the use of the death penalty (which disproportionately affects Black people); and exacerbate health disparities caused by environmental racism.

Karla McKanders, the director of the LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI), the in-house research thinktank that produced the report, said she wanted people to understand the “larger impact that Project 2025 will have on our democracy and undermining our democracy”.

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    5 hours ago

    A couple opinion pieces and podcasts are “liberals being generally quick to blame black people for Trump’s success” ?

    That’s a pretty low bar and doesn’t make it sound widespread at all.

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      5 hours ago

      Where’s your “bar” then? You want a list of every single media outlet that scrutinizes black voters as if they are a dominant voting block?

      Where is your goal post hiding now so I can hurry along to meet it?

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        4 hours ago

        “Uhhh liBeRaL cITiES!”

        There’s not a thing you could say to convince me you don’t have ulterior motives champ.

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          3 hours ago

          There’s not a thing you could say to overcome my prejudiced view of you.

          Typical white American bigot logic.