The Heritage Foundation did publish a constitutional guide presented as a judicial counterpart to Project 2025, but the available evidence does not establish that it is a manual for dismantling the Constitution through specific Supreme Court cases.
Misleading
Heritage Foundation—the right-wing extremist group behind project 2025—just came out with a new book that’s essentially a manual on how to dismantle the US Constitution by bringing specific cases to the Supreme Court.
In New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution - The New York Times
Source: nytimes.com
At a glance
Verified August 27, 2026Key Evidence
The Heritage Foundation released an approximately 800-page, clause-by-clause constitutional analysis in September 2025.
The book was described as related to Project 2025 and as a judicial counterpart, but the provided evidence does not show that it is a litigation manual directing specific cases to the Supreme Court.
Project 2025 is a policy and presidential-transition initiative involving Heritage and more than 100 conservative organizations. Descriptions of that project as authoritarian or extremist are political characterizations, not proof of the book’s contents.
The reporting
What the Evidence Shows
The Heritage Foundation published The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, an approximately 800-page, clause-by-clause analysis with a preface by Justice Samuel Alito. The New York Times described it as a judicial counterpart to Project 2025, but that characterization does not by itself mean the book instructs readers to bring particular cases to the Supreme Court or abolish the constitutional system.
The book was reported in September 2025, so calling it “just” released is time-sensitive and is no longer accurate as of August 27, 2026.nytimes.comnytimes.comIn New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution
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Open source
Project 2025: The right-wing wish list for Trump's second term
The People’s Guide to Project 2025
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Revision history
- Version 2August 27, 2026
The best-supported verdict changes from Mostly True to Misleading. The Heritage Foundation did publish an approximately 800-page constitutional guide and it was described as a judicial counterpart to Project 2025, but the available evidence does not establish the materially stronger claims that the book is a manual for dismantling the Constitution or that it directs readers to bring specific cases to the Supreme Court. Also, the book was reported in September 2025, so “just came out” is no longer accurate as of August 27, 2026.
Mostly True → Misleading - Version 1September 10, 2025
Initial published version
Mostly True