On December 19, 2024, Marc Elias launched Civil Service Strong. The press release calls the firm a coalition of civil society institutions and organizations, including 2.2 million federal government civil servants.
They literally formed this group to go after Donald Trump legally during the second Trump second term.
This is a coalition of the following organizations:
1. American Federation of Government Employees
2. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
3. Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington
4. Democracy Forward
5. Government Accountability Project
6. National Federation of Federal Employees
7. Project on Government Oversight
8. State Democracy Defenders Fund
Almost every single lawsuit that has been filed against the second Trump administration has come from this group. This group combines democratic state Attorneys General, Norm Eisen, Marc Elias and every single one of the Trump haters from act one.
They also have a website where people can educate themselves about the threats to civil service from the Trump administration.
This is the organization that coordinates all of the lawsuits against the administration.
And it can all be traced back to Marc Elias and Norm Eisen.
Because if it seems like it’s a coordinated hit job, it usually is.
Democracy Forward has the following Board of Directors:
Marc Elias
Ron Klein- former chief of staff to Biden
Mindy Myers - former campaign manager for Elizabeth Warren and current head of the DSCC
Javier Guzman- director for global health policy for the Center of Global Development
Tania Faransso - partner at WilmerHale (who is listed as the law firm on some of the Trump lawsuits) and clerked for ROYCE LAMBERTH who is the judge who just blocked the Trump administration from transferring transgender prisoners into the male prison.
Government Accountability Project’s Board of Directors includes:
Richard Salzman: Board Chair; Attorney at Heller, Huron, Chertkof & Salzman PLLC (another firm you will see on the lawsuits against the Trump administration)
Susan Carle: Professor at American University, Washington College of Law.
Getulio P. Carvalho: Research Fellow at the Government Accountability Project.
Mark Cohen: Chief Operating Officer at HIAS, Inc (HIAS is a big recipient of USAID funds, and they have sued the Trump administration)
Kirke Kickingbird: Attorney and member of the Kiowa Tribe (also sued Trump administration)
Patrice McDermott: Former Executive Director of OpenTheGovernment
Michael Termini: Chief of Staff at the Government Accountability Project
The State Democracy Defenders Fund (SDDF) leadership includes:
Susan Corke: Serving as the Executive Director, Susan has over two decades of experience in pro-democracy leadership roles at organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Freedom House, Human Rights First, and the U.S. Department of State.
In 2023 she met with the Biden White House counterterrorism officials before she put Moms for Liberty on the terrorist list at SLPC.
SLPC has received government grants.
The State Democracy Defenders Action (SDDA), a related entity, has a Board of Directors comprising:
Norman Eisen (ret.): Co-founder and Board Member.
Susan Corke: Managing Director and Board Member.
Bill Kristol: Board Member.
Brian Frosh: Board Member.
Rahna Epting: Board Member.
As of October 2024, the Board of Directors for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) includes:
Beth Nolan: Board Chair. - former White House counsel and was a tenured Georgetown professor
Wayne Jordan: Board Vice Chair. - Akonadi Foundation
Craig Kaplan: Board Member.
Stephen D. Kelly: Board Member.
John Luongo: Board Member. - world renounced record producer
Joshua Matz: Board Member. - partner at Kaplan, Hecker and Fink
The Honorable Claire McCaskill: Board Member. - former Senator, MSNBC contributor
The Honorable Claudine Schneider: Board Member. - former member of Republicans for Harris and plaintiff in lawsuit to bar Trump from CO ballot.
Zephyr Teachout: Board Member. - attorney and writes for The Atlantic
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: Board Member. - part of Brennan Center and teaches election law at Stetson.
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