When the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy officially launches Thursday, it will call on America’s lawyers to take up the “clarion call” to defend the U.S. constitutional democracy against the “serious threat” of “rising authoritarianism.”
“Our country and democracy face a wide variety of serious threats, including that of rising authoritarianism,” the bipartisan task force wrote in its opening report. “For the first time in our history, we did not have a peaceful transition of power in our last presidential election.”