Things are happening fast with our various lawsuits against the Trump regime.

Last week we emailed you about a big win in one of our lawsuits. In that case, a federal judge ordered the administration to restore a critical database about the funding allocated to various agencies. That database went dark after Russell Vought, one of the primary architects of the infamous Project 2025 manifesto, took charge of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Now we have another victory to share in a completely different case.

Here are the basics:

• In 1964 — as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” — Congress created the landmark Job Corps program to provide vocational and academic training to low-income young people.

• For six decades, Job Corps has helped millions of at-risk youth by providing job training, housing, and assistance with GEDs.

• The Job Corps program has continued with ongoing bipartisan support in Congress — even when President Richard Nixon wanted to shrink it and President Ronald Reagan wanted to eliminate it altogether.

• But then Donald Trump was reelected, and tried to do what Nixon and Reagan couldn’t. In May — in flagrant defiance of the law — the Trump regime announced that it was suspending the Job Corps program and closing all 99 Job Corps centers nationwide.

• Public Citizen — with Southern Poverty Law Center as co-counsel — filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful decision to close the Job Corps centers.

Last Friday, the court ruled in our favor and put on hold the Trump regime’s decision to close the Job Corps centers.

The judge wrote that the administration’s actions were “unprecedented” and that it “unequivocally” acted “unlawfully” in its scheme to kill the storied Job Corps program.

MORE ABOUT TAKING THE REGIME TO COURT

The Trump administration is unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and unlawfully dismantling the federal government — our government — from Cabinet-level departments that have their own stately buildings here in Washington, D.C., to smaller agencies that go largely unnoticed as they do the routine, unheralded work that makes for a functioning country.

Public Citizen is doing everything we can — within our modest means — to fight back at every turn. It’s David and Goliath for sure, but we will never back down. Even where we haven’t (yet) notched definitive victories in court, we are slowing down the regime and making it work a lot harder in pursuit of its desire for absolute power.

This Job Corps case is one of 17 lawsuits we have filed (so far) against the administration since Trump returned to power. Are these lawsuits alone enough to fully defeat Trump and MAGA? Of course not. But are they a meaningful part of the pushback needed to collectively save our country? No doubt about it.

What you and Public Citizen are doing together matters. What hundreds of other organizations, big and small, are doing matters. What millions upon millions of our fellow Americans are doing matters. We believe that to our core. We take solace in that. And we draw inspiration from that. We hope you do, too.

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