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Justin Florence is Co-Founder and Legal Director of Protect Democracy, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting our democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. He served in the Office of the White House Counsel as Special Assistant to the President. Justin also worked for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse as Senior Counsel on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The greatest threat to our democracy would be to ignore the problems that have been exposed in our system, leaving us vulnerable to a strongman style of governance, that is desirable tor at least acceptable to a large segment of the electorate.
Protect Democracy has been working on a variety of issues to prevent that decline from happening: disinformation, the corruption of elections, delegitimization of communities, politicization of independent institutions and the suppression of dissent.
They are committed to restoring our checks and balances and building a stronger, more inclusive democracy.