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Litigating Against Collusive Litigation Tactics
March 19, 2026
Overview
Over the last year, the Trump-Vance administration has increasingly used collusive litigation tactics to bypass ordinary legal processes and instead implement its policy agenda through bad faith litigation. Democracy Forward Foundation’s first resource on this topic, Weaponizing the Courts: Trump-Vance’s Collusive Settlement Strategy, outlines one such strategy—collusive settlements—and provides examples of how the administration is using this particular tactic.
This second resource focuses in more depth on ways to oppose the Trump-Vance administration’s collusive efforts (both collusive settlements and other tactics).