Further evidence of Barack Obama’s close association with efforts to oppose President Trump has emerged: a group of former top lawyers for the Obama administration have formed an organization aimed at utilizing legal advocacy methods to oppose Trump’s policies.
The organization is calling itself United to Protect Democracy, drawing on the theme of Obama’s farewell speech last month.The group is already partnered with an organization heavily financed by billionaire George Soros and is led by a former Obama lawyer who previously worked at a Soros-financed global activist outfit.
Politico first reported on the formation of United to Protect Democracy, which has already raised $1.5 million and hired five staffers.
Politico reported on the intentions of the anti-Trump legal group:
While other Trump opponents focus on
taking the president to court over the travel ban and deportations, the
new group plans to drill into issues that aren’t already hitting the
headlines, like potential intervention in and intimidation of regulatory
agencies by West Wing staff. …
They started by submitting 50 Freedom of
Information Act requests this week that they believe will confirm their
suspicions. The plan is to bring what they find to reporters, build it
into pressure for congressional oversight with the help of a campaign
director they’ll hire, and, as necessary, to file lawsuits.
They’re also hoping to establish
themselves as a base for government employees worried about ethics
violations — up to and including becoming whistleblowers — and are
hoping that their website can become a resource.
“When people hear concerns about democracies declining into authoritarianism, they expect that moment to come in a singular thunderclap where everyone can see that this is the time,” Bassin told Politico. “In reality, oftentimes, democracies decline over a period of years that happen through a series of much smaller steps.”
Bassin previously served as General Counsel and Campaign Director at Avaaz, which describes itself as a “global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.”
Discover the Networks describes Avaaz as “the global counterpart of the George Soros-funded MoveOn,” and a “global ‘e-advocacy’ nonprofit organization whose chief function is to promote leftwing political agendas through Web-based movement-building and campaigns.”
ABC News reported that Avaaz has been funded by Soros, as well
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/03/03/soros-tied-obama-lawyers-group-emerges-battle-trump/
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