Mashable
In the first 24 hours of Donald Trump‘s new administration, the president signed 26 executive orders, setting an anti-progressive agenda in motion. Dozens more orders followed in the weeks after, with the Trump administration enacting 89 executive actions as of March, according to the nonpartisan American Presidency Project.
Legal challenges rolled in almost immediately. A mere six days after Trump’s inauguration, Just Security, an online forum and publisher of legal and political analysis, had enough court filings and legal headlines to warrant a digital, Trump-focused litigation tracker — a running list of the civil rights organizations, labor unions, state governments, and individuals who have been pushing back against the barrage of executive orders and policy changes. Other legal groups have launched similar trackers.
As of this story’s publishing, Just Security’s tracker shows 119 open cases across 10 different topic areas, from government grants and assistance to environmental policy, like Trump’s rescission of the United States’ climate pledges and the deletion of climate data on federal sites.
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