Politics

The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working

Lawsuits, lawsuits, and more lawsuits

First published in The Atlantic on September 2, 2025

by Michael Scherer, The Atlantic
September 4, 2025 | reading time: 12 Min.
Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department’s revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom. Norm Eisen, a former attorney for Barack Obama’s White House, had convened lawyers, Democratic communications strategists, a neoconservative Trump critic, and a former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party. This one was big, Eisen said from his parked car in Baltimore, where he had traveled for a lawsuit to overturn President Donald Trump’s cuts to AmeriCorps. They should move quickly..

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