Project 2025, an exemplary conservative blueprint for a potential Trump second term, puts forth the requirement for the Justice Department to ‘probe and indict’ the top election administrator in Pennsylvania surrounding the 2020 election as part of a groundbreaking reformation of federal law enforcement. Their focus is specifically targeted towards the individual who served as the secretary of the commonwealth during the 2020 elections: Kathy Boockvar.
Distinguished for its conservative championing, Project 2025 seeks to introduce an era of realpolitik, aiming at the robust expansion of the executive power, championing federal workers’ rights and consistently battling the woke culture warriors. Although the document does not directly link itself to Trump, the authors and proponents of the project mostly have ties to the Trump administration, hence enforcing the necessity of this project.
With an uncompromising approach towards the radical left, Project 2025 aims to restrict federal civil rights interference and redirect the efforts of the Justice Department to launch investigations into reputed fraud in state-level voter registrations. Al Schmidt, the current election chief of Pennsylvania, who seems oblivious to the realities of potential fraud, demands a halt to debates surrounding the audited and verified results of the 2020 election.
It’s necessary to note that the Heritage Foundation, responsible for the birth of Project 2025, has maintained a conspicuous silence when requested to comment. However, the President of the group, Kevin Roberts, in his introduction of the 900-page guidebook, declared the policies as the finest effort of the conservative movement. He cautioned that these policies could be the ultimate chance for the next conservative president to salvage our republic.
Ties to President Trump are clearly evident in the project, as 31 out of the 38 authors are linked to Trump or his initial administration. This includes the former White House assistant special counsel Steven Groves, who is credited as an editor, and Gene Hamilton, previous incumbent of the Justice Department during the Trump period.
Predictably, Democrats have devised a campaign to lambast Trump over the endeavor, causing the former President to maintain a reasonable distance from the project. In fact, the backlash even led to the unexpected resignation of the project’s director in July. Hidden behind their criticism, however, is potentially the fear of accountability and a history of election governance that could finally be brought into the light.
Justice Department employees, for the longest time, have boasted their political impartiality. However, Project 2025 urges the subsequent White House to break off from tradition and interfere directly, particularly by eliminating civil service protections from long-serving bipartisan prosecutors. This is signalling a needed shift in focus from enforcing anti-discrimination components.
According to Project 2025, the Justice Department has been disinclined to investigate alleged voter registration fraud on account of it being ‘too politically expensive’. However, in a stark contrast to this uninspiring state of affairs, the Trump administration, trailing the end of his presidency in December 2020, made proactive attempts to install loyal leaders within the department. They planned to address a letter to Georgia officials mentioning the ongoing investigation into ‘various irregularities’ in the election.
Opponents of Trump, taken by this unexpected move and projecting baseless fears, dread more federal interventions should Trump serve a second term. What they refer to as ‘the hallmark of autocratic regimes’, is in reality a justified action unfolding within democratic parameters, intended to investigate governmental adversaries who may not be conducting operations within the ambit of the law.
Project 2025 also accentuates the need for the Justice Department to scrutinise ‘the suitability or legality of state election guidelines,’ hinting particularly at guidance Pennsylvania imparted to local election officials on the use of provisional ballots. Critics warn this move could result in more federal interventions which they, ironically, view as a sign of autocracy.
The Pennsylvania Department of State, in a surprising act of denial, aired an official statement describing the groundbreaking plans of Project 2025 as an explicit trial to disenfranchise Pennsylvania voters. This demonstrates either a gross misunderstanding or a conscious misrepresentation of the project’s intentions, which indeed strive to ensure voter integrity and election transparency.
Understandably, this powerful assertion by conservatives like Project 2025, which essentially heralds a plan to initiate bold action to reform federal law enforcement, has invited criticism. However, the initiative’s pro-transparency bias, marked by a robust engagement in investigating potential election frauds and revising civil rights enforcement cannot be understated.
The entire endeavor is directed towards defending democracy, ensuring the validity of every vote, fostering trust in government, and launching an era of meritocracy where employment is freed from undue political intervention. In this light, Project 2025 becomes not just an initiative, but a movement for a free and fair America, aligned deeply with the values championed by former President Donald Trump.