Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s far right policy agenda, proposes dismantling democratic institutions to reshape American life. Tucked in the middle of the nearly 1,000-page document lies a striking plan — to prosecute locally elected officials who do not adhere to the priorities of a potential second Trump administration, reported Truthout. Specifically, page 553 calls for the Department of Justice to “initiate legal action against local officials,” namely district attorneys, who fail to “prosecute criminal offenses in their jurisdictions.”
Donald Trump often threatens to prosecute his
political opponents. This rhetoric offers a glimpse into why experts fear that
Project 2025’s plan to leverage the DOJ could lead a new administration to
broadly target elected officials.
“The DOJ section, specifically, is one of the scariest
because it really outlines a way for the DOJ to be used as an enforcement arm
of the White House,” said Brianna Seid, a lawyer in the justice program at
NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice. “At the heart of it, it’s just very
anti-democratic, and it presumes that a few actors at the federal level know
what an individual community wants and should have a say in what an individual
community wants.”
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