The 65 Project

The 65 Project is a legal activism campaign[1] seeking to "disbar and discredit"[2] Trump-affiliated[3] lawyers who worked on lawsuits supporting Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

[8] The project was also devised by Democratic political consultant Melissa Moss, a former senior Clinton administration official, and operates through a not-for-profit named "Law Works.

[4] However, the group had continued publishing adversarial media targeting lawyers' professional communities, planning advertising campaigns to run in law journals as recently as late fall 2024.

[14] Alan Dershowitz, whose sanctions for "frivolous" election litigation[15] followed complaints by Marc Elias's firm,[16] compared the results of its work as similar to the "ridicule" faced by suspected communists during McCarthyism[17] and Texas Congressman Lance Gooden described the 65 Project as "a far-left activist group of lawyers actively engaging in partisan tactics.

[19] The 65 Project elicited criticism from ethics complaint respondent Cleta Mitchell for not also pursuing attorney Marc Elias[2] who had challenged the Iowa election results of Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks previously.