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Trump Nominee for Top Justice Department Civil Rights Post Still Unfit for the Job

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January 17, 2018

Lambda Legal is urging Republican members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to reconsider their support for Eric S. Dreiband, nominated to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
While No One is Looking: Senate GOP Leaders Attempting to Jam Through Trump's Anti-Civil Rights Judicial Nominees

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January 17, 2018

This week, under the shadow of a looming government shutdown, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a slate of 17 of Trump’s judicial nominees, along with a number of other controversial executive branch nominees.
Trump’s Assault on LGBT Rights Continues with Latest Judicial Nominee

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January 10, 2018

LGBT Legal Advocacy Organization Brings Together 15 National, State and Local LGBT Rights Organizations in Letter Detailing Howard Nielson’s Homophobic Record including his “Trump-ian” Attack on Gay Federal Judge

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments
Lambda Legal Bids Farewell to Jim Bennett, Chief Development Officer

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January 4, 2018

Jim Bennett, Chief Development Officer at Lambda Legal, will be departing the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit LGBT legal advocacy organization after a successful 11-year career.
DOJ Backs Down, Dismissing Appeal of Order Putting Trans Military Ban on Hold

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December 29, 2017

Today, the Trump administration withdrew its appeal of a lower court ruling halting implementation of its discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services.

See Also: Military, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Files FOIA Request After Trump Administration Restricts Use of Seven Words at CDC

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December 20, 2017

Today, Lambda Legal filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any and all documents and communications from the Trump-Pence administration regarding their prohibition of the words “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based” in any budget documents from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), other divisions of HHS or any government agency.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Health Care Fairness, HIV, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
Trump’s Judicial Assault on LGBT Rights

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December 20, 2017

The record speed with which President Trump is reshaping the courts, coupled with the staggeringly high number of judges with anti-LGBT records whom he has nominated for lifetime appointments (nearly one-third of those nominated), is triggering a growing and vast judicial crisis for LGBT people, with sweeping consequences that will last decades after Trump is gone.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
Supreme Court of Hawai’i Hears Parenting Case Testing Marriage Equality Ruling

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December 14, 2017

The Supreme Court of Hawai’i today heard oral argument in the case of C.C. v. D.D., in which Lambda Legal is urging the Court to uphold a lower court ruling that, just like different-sex spouses, same-sex spouses must be treated as the presumed parents of children born during their marriage, with equal rights and equal responsibilities, including legal parentage and child support.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships, Youth and Schools
The Senate Just Confirmed an Unqualified, Anti-LGBT Judge to a Lifetime Appointment on the Federal Bench

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December 12, 2017

Today, the United States Senate handed Leonard Steven Grasz a lifetime appointment to the federal bench on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, despite being one of only four nominees since 1989 to receive a unanimously unqualified rating by the non-partisan American Bar Association.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
Mitch McConnell is About to Give Lifetime Appointments to Three More of Trump's Extreme Nominees

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December 12, 2017

This week, the United States Senate will potentially put three of Donald Trump’s extreme anti-LGBT nominees on the federal bench.

See Also: Fair Courts Project