{"id":134161,"date":"2025-09-30T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/this-legal-nonprofit-has-brought-more-than-100-actions-against-trump-agenda-as-big-law-shies-away\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:26:02","slug":"this-legal-nonprofit-has-brought-more-than-100-actions-against-trump-agenda-as-big-law-shies-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/this-legal-nonprofit-has-brought-more-than-100-actions-against-trump-agenda-as-big-law-shies-away\/","title":{"rendered":"This Legal Nonprofit Has Brought More Than 100 Actions Against Trump Agenda, as Big Law Shies Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of law firms &#8220;are not taking on the level of pro bono work, the level of pro democracy work that they did in the first Trump administration, or that they have historically, as a result of the president&#8217;s strategy to try to intimidate 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