More than 100 lawsuits filed against Trump regime in past year

The Guardian - Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by a rollback of civil liberties.

He has terminated all federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices and positions. He has declared that the government will only refer to individuals by their biological “sex” instead of their gender identity. He has also set a sweeping anti-immigration agenda, attempting to end birthright citizenship, pausing refugee admissions and increasing immigration enforcement operations around the country.

But many Americans have been using the courts to fight back.

More than a hundred lawsuits were filed against the Trump administration over the past year by people and organizations to restore some of these rights. Among them are Fernando Viera Reyes, who says he was denied proper medical care in immigration detention; Zaya Perysian, who was denied a passport with her correct gender identity; Mohsen Mahdawi, who was detained by immigration officials over exercising his first amendment right to protest over the war in Gaza; and Jon Carlson, a pastor whose place of worship has become a target for immigration enforcement seeking to detain undocumented people.   More on these lawsuits

Reyes, Perysian, Mahdawi and Carson spoke to the Guardian about why it’s so important to fight back, not just to protect their own rights, but the rights of millions of others in the US.