The Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights (“LCCHR”), one of the leading civil rights and civil liberties organizations in the United States, recently published a highly detailed report and related timeline of what the current Federal regime has done since taking power at the start of 2025. Echoing other civil society organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”), this report observes that the Federal administration’s “actions seek to create chaos, sow division, and roll back critical civil and human rights and protections.” For example, as reported by the LCCHR and also documented by the ACLU, the current Federal regime “installed the president’s personal attorneys and other anti-civil rights extremists into positions responsible for enforcing landmark civil rights laws, including at the Department of Justice and its Civil Rights Division, where political appointees have perverted the founding mission of the division – devoting themselves to promoting the president’s dangerous authoritarian, anti-civil and human rights agenda. . . .” Relatedly, the LCCHR observed, those now in power have “engaged in a frontal attack on the rule of law and the basic tenets of our democracy, including by targeting law firms that have challenged the administration . . . defying court orders when federal judges deem their actions unlawful[,] *** deporting U.S. citizens and others without due process, arresting student protestors who haven’t been charged with a crime, subjecting nonprofit and elected leaders to inappropriate physical force and retaliatory criminal prosecutions, deploying the National Guard on peaceful protestors, and other cruel, authoritarian actions.” According to the LCCHR report, the current Federal regime also has used less confrontational tactics than those summarized above to pursue the agenda outlined in Project 2025 that we previously analyzed here. For instance, according to the LCCHER report, the Federal administration has removed “commonly used datasets and resources that document economic, social, and health disparities faced by millions of people in America. These rollbacks not only threaten the integrity of scientific research but are a deliberate attempt to suppress visibility and recognition of underserved communities.”

Under these circumstances, the nation’s outlook for civil rights and civil liberties – and the accompanying rule of law – seems difficult to say the least. It remains imperative to redouble the commitment to restoring the rule of law and, therefore, to securing civil rights and civil liberties for all. The expanding efforts in Minnesota, empowered by a multi-racial, inter-denominational, and cross-geographic coalition, provides a good example of how to create a better future for everyone. At a high level, this broad-based strategy aims to build a world “that is inclusive and just for every person” and to put “a democracy that honors every person’s dignity” and “a caring economy that allows everyone to thrive” at the center of policy-making going forward.