¶ The 65 Project
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The 65 Project is an American legal action initiative focused on bringing sanctions against lawyers associated with President Donald Trump who brought election challenges following the 2020 United States presidential election. It operates through Law Works and is fiscally sponsored by the Franklin Education Forum.[1][2]
The project initially targeted "111 attorneys in 26 states who were involved to some degree in efforts to challenge or reverse 2020 election results."[1:1]
Texas attorney Paul Davis described the project as "nothing more than a desperate attempt by leftist hacks and mercenaries… to neutralize anyone on the right with the ability to stand in the way of the left's efforts to hide malfeasance in the 2020 elections and to clear the path for a repeat of similar malfeasance in the 2022 mid-terms."[1:2] Another attorney, Cleta Mitchell, characterized the effort as "hypocritical."[1:3]
¶ Organization
Personnel of The 65 Project are listed on its website, as well as in archived form.[3][4][5]
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Teter | Managing Director | Utah Office of the Attorney General |
| Eddie Vale | Communications Strategist | New Paradigm Agency, American Bridge 21st Century, John Edwards for President 2008, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Workers' Voice |
| David Brock | Senior Advisor | Media Matters for America, American Bridge 21st Century, American Independent |
| Melissa Moss | Senior Advisor | Moss Advisors, Law Works, Capital Guardian Trust Company, Women's Consumer Network, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) |
| David Fink | Consulting Counsel | Fink Bressack |
| Nathan Fink | Consulting Counsel | American Constitution Society (ACS), Michigan Student Assembly (MSA), Wayne Law Review |
| Kenneth Mogill | Consulting Counsel | Mogill, Posner & Cohen, Wayne State University Law School, American College of Trial Lawyers, State Bar of Michigan, Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan Justice for All Commission |
| Tom Daschle | Advisory Board member | Daschle Group, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, Center for American Progress (CAP), National Democratic Institute (NDI), Bipartisan Policy Center |
| Christine Durham | Advisory Board member | Utah Supreme Court, Utah Judicial Council, Utah Center for Legal Inclusion, Duke University, Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ), American Bar Association (ABA) |
| Stuart Gerson | Advisory Board member | United States Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Department of Justice Civil Division |
| Renee Knake Jefferson | Advisory Board member | University of Houston, Michigan State University, American Law Institute (ALI), American Bar Foundation, Association of American Law Schools (AALS), American Bar Association Commission on the Future of Legal Services |
| Roberta Cooper Ramo | Advisory Board member | American Bar Association (ABA), American Law Institute (ALI), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), American Bar Foundation, Gray's Inn |
| Paul Rosenzweig | Advisory Board member | Red Branch Consulting, Chertoff Group, United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), George Washington University, American University Washington College of Law, American Bar Association (ABA), Lawfare, District of Columbia Bar, Medill School of Journalism |
| Rollin King | Researcher | - |
| Naji Thompson | Researcher | Bonner Group, The Collective PAC, Dickinson College, Girls Leadership Academy for Service & Sport (GLASS) |
¶ External links
Markay, L., & Swan, J. (2022, March 7). Scoop: High-powered group targets Trump lawyers’ livelihoods. Axios. https://web.archive.org/web/20220505115716/https://www.axios.com/2022/03/07/trump-election-lawyers-disbar ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
LawWorks. Democracy Fund. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20241121213856/https://democracyfund.org/grant/lawworks-2/ ↩︎
About Us. The 65 Project. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20241121034929/https://the65project.com/about/ ↩︎
About Us. The 65 Project. Retrieved March 7, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220307173320/https://the65project.com/about/ ↩︎
About Us. The 65 Project. Retrieved September 22, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220922172154/https://the65project.com/about/ ↩︎