What PROJECT 2025 Means for the Justice System

What PROJECT 2025 Means for the Justice System

 Research staff and I have been teaching judges and lawyers for decades how to discern fact from fancy.  In the spirit of this effort, we read and reviewed PROJECT 2025 and created a searchable, highlighted and annotated version available to all who are interested in how the Heritage Foundation and senior staff from the Trump administration have developed their plans.  We have also attached a list of Project 2025 proposals and goals with page numbers so readers can find the relevant pages for themselves.

 The impact of PROJECT 2025 on the Justice System is essentially “Just  Us “

Just Us will tell you how to run the government.  Just Us will describe which Federal Agencies will continue to exist.  Just Us will specify how to create a family.  Just Us will describe who is entitled to the protection of Federal Law and who is not.  Just Us will say what the United States is and what it is not. . . . . and who is the “Us “ . . . . . .

 Trump Administration Officials Who Wrote PROJECT 2025

 Paul Dans, Trump Admin. Chief of Staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was a Director of PROJECT 2025.

 Spencer Chretien, Trump Admin. special assistant to identify, recruit and place political employees at all levels of government was another Director of PROJECT 2025

William Perry Pendley, Trump Admin. Department of the Interior Official wrote the PROJECT 2025 Blueprint.

Steven Groves, special assistant to Trump to defend him against Robert Mueller's investigation was an editor of the PROJECT 2025 policy document.

Stephen Moore, an adviser to the Trump campaign was a co-author of PROJECT 2025

Mandy Gunasekara, Chief of Staff at Trump Admin. E.P.A. wrote the PROJECT 2025 plan for downsizing or eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency.

Bernard McNamee, Trump Admin. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member wrote the PROJECT 2025 Energy Policy Section.

 . . . . . . . . Other Trump Administration Officials Involved in the Development of PROJECT 2025

Jonathan Berry –served as counsel to the assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2017 and 2018. Berry was also part of Trump's presidential transition team in 2016 and 2017, advising on ethics and legal policy.

Adam Candeub –served in the DOJ as the deputy associate attorney general in 2020. In 2019, he served as a high-ranking commerce official in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

Dustin J. Carmack – served as the chief of staff to the director of national intelligence in 2020 and 2021.

Brendan Carr – was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by Trump.

Ken Cuccinelli – served as the acting Secretary of Homeland Security from 2019 until 2021. In 2020, a congressional watchdog issued a report saying that he was unlawfully appointed to this position.

Rick Dearborn – served as a deputy chief of staff in Trump's White House in 2017 and 2018. Prior to Trump's inauguration, Dearborn worked as the staff director in the presidential transition team.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth – served as acting assistant secretary for economic policy at the Department of the Treasury in 2018 and 2019.

Thomas Gilman – served in two roles in the Department of Commerce simultaneously from 2019 until 2021: chief financial officer as well as assistant secretary for administration.

Gene Hamilton – served as counsel for the attorney general in the DOJ from 2017 until 2021.

Jennifer Hazelton – served as public affairs official at the Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2020 and 2021. She also served as a public affairs official in the State Department in 2017.

Troup Hemenway – served as associate director for national security in the White House Presidential Personnel Office, which is tasked with vetting new appointees. He also founded the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees.

Bernard McNamee – served as commissioner for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2018 until 2020.

Christopher Miller – served in three roles in the Trump administration in a period of only seven months. In June 2020, he was appointed as the acting assistant secretary of defense, in August 2020, he was named director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and from November 2020 until January 2021, he served as the acting secretary of defense.

Stephen Moore –  advised on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Trump nominated Moore to serve as governor of the Federal Reserve, but he withdrew his name after facing criticism following the resurfacing of historic articles he wrote disparaging female athletes.

Mora Namdar – served as the acting assistant secretary of state in the State Department from December 2020 until January 2021.

Peter Navarro – served as the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy from 2017 until 2021. He was also the director of the National Trade Council in 2017. Navarro was a close adviser to Trump, largely on trade, but he also advised on the COVID-19 response and Trump's false election fraud claims.

Max Primorac – served as the acting chief operating officer for USAID from November 2020 until January 2021. He had previously worked as an adviser in the same agency since 2018.

Roger Severino – served in the Department of Health and Human Services as director of the Civil Rights Office from 2017 until 2021.

Kiron Skinner – served as director of policy planning in the State Department from 2018 until 2019. She previously worked from Trump's transition team.

Brooks Tucker – served as chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs from April 2020 until January 2021.

Hans von Spakovsky – served on Trump's “Voter Fraud Commission”, which operated from May 2017 until January 2018. He previously served as commissioner of the Federal Election Commission.

Russ Vought – served as director the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office in the executive branch of government.

Paul Winfree – served in three roles in Trump's White House: deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council, and director of budget policy. Trump appointed him to the Fullbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

SOURCES:  Newsweek     Politico     Forbes     Wikipedia     The Democrats