At the start of President Trump’s first administration, Skye Perryman joined a small legal organization, without even a website, bent on holding power to account.

Now, she runs the group — Democracy Forward — which is 53 lawyers strong and among the most formidable legal foes to Trump’s second term agenda.

Since Trump returned to the White House, Democracy Forward has filed nearly 100 legal actions against his administration, by its count, notching victories in more than a dozen cases spanning data protections from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the release of billions of dollars in frozen funds.

In an interview with The Hill, Perryman said fighting Trump’s agenda has changed since 2017, forcing a recalibration of the legal defense against it. But Perryman believes it

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