Law & Policy Project

By touting the conviction and sentence given to Mercedes Williamson’s murderer yesterday, Sessions clearly — and cynically — hopes to use violence against transgender people as a way to disarm progressives who are speaking out against Sessions’ misguided and racially-charged approach to criminal justice.

Today Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline were joined by Democratic Leaders in the Senate and House as well as members of the bipartisan LGBTQ Equality Caucus to reintroduce the Equality Act, a bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing, credit, education, and jury service.

Lambda Legal leads 19 LGBT groups in sending a letter to the US Senate opposing Judge Gorsuch's nomination to the United States Supreme Court.

The North Carolina legislature today convened for a special session where it failed to pass a bill repealing H.B. 2, the state’s sweeping anti-LGBT law.