CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Rutherford Institute has released its 2025 Annual Report, documenting what constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead describes as “one of the most consequential years for constitutional liberty in modern American history.” The Report highlights the Institute’s nationwide legal advocacy and public education efforts to counter the federal government’s increasingly aggressive use of executive power, mass surveillance, censorship, military force, and prosecutorial overreach.
“What we witnessed in 2025 was a dramatic turning point in the relationship between the government and ‘we the people,’” said Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “From federalized troops to AI-driven surveillance, from blacklisting law firms to punishing dissent, the government has steadily abandoned the constitutional restraints meant to keep its power in check. The Constitution cannot defend itself. That responsibility falls to the people—and to organizations willing to challenge the government’s abuses in court, in Congress, and in the public square.”
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