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Article
Abstract
Project 2025 supporters have been appointed to prominent federal offices in the second Trump Administration. This includes, most notably, the Office of Management and Budget, for a key strategy of implementing the Project’s goals is manipulation of federal funding. This Essay explores what this might mean for women’s rights and suggests a legal theory with which to challenge Project initiatives. Project 2025 repackages a platform that is fully anti-feminist. It is not a new platform. It is the same set of tools that has been used against feminism since the movement’s inception. It expansively seeks policy changes for abortion, contraception, the nuclear family, single motherhood, childcare, child support, no-fault divorce, sex education, and women’s employment. Women have been here before—in the late 1890s when patriarchy responded to first-wave feminism, in the post-World-War-II era when men wanted their jobs back, and in the 1970s and 1980s in response to second-wave feminism. But now opponents of women’s rights use the guise of federal funding and incrementalism to erode women’s rights and return women to the constraints of a subordinate domestic role. This Essay exposes the anti-feminist policies urged by the Project and then explores a strategic use of due process doctrine to legally challenge them
Recommended Citation
Tracy Turner, Project 2025 and Due Process After Dobbs, 16 ConLawNOW 149 (2025)