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The Equality Act Continues the March Toward Justice for All

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July 23, 2015

Everything you need to know about the federal bill that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing, credit, education and jury service.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Housing
Lambda Legal Applauds Introduction of Federal Nondiscrimination Bill in Congress

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July 23, 2015

Today Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline, together with lead co-sponsors Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), introduced 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.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Housing, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Lambda Legal Condemns Attack on Supreme Court After Marriage and Healthcare Decisions

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July 22, 2015

During a Senate subcommittee hearing titled ‘With Prejudice: Supreme Court Activism and Possible Solutions’, 2016 presidential hopeful Ted Cruz and others bashed recent Supreme Court decisions granting the freedom to marry for same-sex couples and ensuring that Affordable Care Act subsidies remain available. Cruz, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts labeled these decisions ‘judicial activism’, and invited witnesses to condemn the Court’s decisions. One witness, Ed Whelan, in written testimony stated: “The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling last month inventing a supposed federal constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex is brazenly lawless. In the flagrancy and magnitude of its errors in overriding, and cutting short, the democratic processes, Obergefell v. Hodges is rivaled in Supreme Court history only by Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Roe v. Wade (1973).”

See Also: Fair Courts Project
"With Prejudice" Hearing Liveblog

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July 22, 2015

We're live-tweeting the @SenTedCruz "With Prejudice" (srly? don't ask us) #scotusHearing. Listen: http://cs.pn/1RNACeh. Or just follow us.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
What You Need to Know About the EEOC Decision

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July 17, 2015

What Just Happened The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a landmark ruling this week that the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protect employees who suffer discrimination because of their sexual orientation.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Law & Policy Project
Lambda Legal Applauds Groundbreaking EEOC Decision

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July 16, 2015

This landmark opinion from the EEOC confirms what we have long argued in our cases: discriminating against gay, lesbian and bisexual employees violates federal law.
After 24 Years of Leadership, Lambda Legal Executive Director Kevin Cathcart Announces Retirement

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July 15, 2015

Kevin M. Cathcart, who has been the Executive Director of Lambda Legal since 1992, announced today that he will retire when his current contract ends at the end of April, 2016.