“Based on analysis of crime data, our report demonstrated facts about the National Guard deployments that are inconvenient to the Trump administration,” wrote Neera Tanden, Cap’s president and CEO. “This threatened lawsuit’s attack on facts and evidence is baseless. A fundamental protection of the First Amendment is to allow for the publication of facts and analysis that are contrary to the arguments and claims of any administration. A lawsuit is a transparent attempt to silence us. We will neither cower nor bend in the face of it.”…
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Center for American Progress defends National Guard research against Trump’s lawsuit threat - POLITICO
The Center for American Progress stood behind a recent report that the Trump administration’s National Guard deployments failed to reduce violent crime, after the president threatened to sue the liberal think tank.
In a statement released Tuesday, the organization accused President Donald Trump of “lashing out” in an attempt to “silence independent research, waste taxpayer money on his failed agenda, and distract from the reality that his policies are hurting the American people.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/11/center-for-american-progress-trump-lawsuit-01033086
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