‘We Know Project 2025 ... We Created Contingency Plans’

NY AG Letitia James ready to lead resistance to new Trump administration

New York state Attorney General Letitia James isn’t done with Donald Trump.

It was James who brought the civil lawsuit against Trump’s business enterprise for having committed fraud. That suit resulted in the defendants being ordered to pay $364 million of ill-gotten gains, among other penalties.

Now that Trump is heading back to the Oval Office, she’s ready to lead the fight against his extreme right-wing agenda.

Ahead of the election, Trump publicly and repeatedly disavowed Project 2025, the massive, right-wing blueprint to enact a far right agenda and consolidate more power in Trump’s hands.

But now with the election over, some of Trump’s closest allies, including one-time White House advisor Steve Bannon, are pulling the mask off and revealing that enacting Project 2025 was the intent all along.

James said that she and other Democratic state attorneys general nationwide have been prepared to fight the proposals within Project 2025, which include rolling back civil rights, protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, further limits on abortion rights and more.

“We know Project 2025 before it was even published. And we have been working both in my office and with other Democratic AGs across this country to make sure that we would be ready to respond to any attempt to roll back our rights,” she said Wednesday at a news conference. “So here we are. We’ve studied their platforms. We’ve identified certain possibilities, fact patterns. We’ve created contingency plans so no matter what the next administration throws at us, we’re ready.

“We’re ready to respond to their attacks. We’re ready to respond to any attempts to cut or eliminate any funding to the great state of New York, as the governor outlined. So despite what has happened on the national stage, we will continue to stand tall in the face of injustice, revenge or retribution,” James added. “We will continue to protect, and our most vulnerable and marginalized amongst us.

“Because it is my sworn duty and responsibility to lead that fight working with the governor of this great state, Kathy Hochul. This is not the time to be fearful, New York, but faithful and steadfast,” she said. “Knowing that I, as the attorney general, along with my entire team, we are guardians of the law. And we are prepared, my friends, to fight back.”

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