August 5, 2025

Whenever someone tries to give me credit for saving democracy, I correct them. The litigation I bring is not saving democracy. Even when successful, that isn’t its aim. My goal, I explain, is simply to buy time for democracy to be saved through the political process.

For every voter suppression law I help strike down, there are dozens more that hostile legislatures can enact. For every election I help protect from being stolen, there are now thousands of election deniers embedded in election offices, ready to subvert the next one.

Only a culture shift within the GOP can save democracy. Free and fair elections will not be safe so long as Trump is in the White House. The rule of law will not prevail until MAGA is defeated, discredited and abandoned.

To be perfectly honest, even a year ago, this felt like an achievable goal. Now it feels like a Sisyphean task.

There are times I start to lose hope — days I feel overwhelmed by the task in front of me, moments of despair when I look at all the damage Trump is doing and realize what a small part I can play, even if I am entirely successful.

I begin each day...

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