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Lambda Legal: Biden Choices for DOJ Confront Tall Task to Restore Trust in the Institution

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January 7, 2021

Today, President-elect Joseph Biden announced his nominees for key leadership positions in the U.S. Department of Justice: U.S. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland for Attorney General; former homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco as Deputy Attorney General; former Justice Department civil rights chief Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General; and Kristen Clark, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Lambda Legal Condemns Mob Violence at United States Capitol and Disruption of Peaceful Transfer of Power

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January 6, 2021

In response to the violent disruption by supporters of President Trump as Congress was counting the electoral college votes confirming the election of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., Lambda Legal CEO, Kevin Jennings has issued the following statement:
Lambda Legal Celebrates Election of Pro-Equality Senate

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January 6, 2021

Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings today issued the following statement about the election of Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock and apparent election of Democrat Jon Ossoff to the U.S. Senate, defeating incumbent Georgia Republican senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Tuesday's run-off election:

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New Report Illuminates Trump’s Legacy of Radicalizing Federal Courts with Alarming Speed

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January 5, 2021

In just four years, President Trump has ushered in a judicial landscape that is significantly more hostile toward LGBTQ+ people, with nearly 40% of Trump’s confirmed federal appellate judges having demonstrated anti-LGBTQ+ bias according to a new report released today by Lambda Legal.

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VICTORY! Judge Halts Implementation of Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

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December 23, 2020

U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing its executive order that prohibits federal contractors and grantees from conducting workplace diversity trainings or engaging in grant-funded work that explicitly acknowledges and confronts the existence of structural racism and sexism in our society.

See Also: Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy
Lambda Legal Files Brief in Support of Transgender Employee Fighting Hobby Lobby

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December 22, 2020

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality Challenge Trump Administration's "Death to Asylum" Rule

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December 21, 2020

Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality, and co-counsel Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, filed a federal lawsuit, Immigration Equality v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, challenging the Trump administration’s recently published “death to asylum” rule, which makes sweeping, essentially fatal changes to the United States asylum system.

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Lambda Legal: Biden Choices for DOJ Confront Tall Task to Restore Trust in the Institution

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Lambda Legal Condemns Mob Violence at United States Capitol and Disruption of Peaceful Transfer of Power

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Lambda Legal Celebrates Election of Pro-Equality Senate

georgia_run-off_election.jpg

New Report Illuminates Trump’s Legacy of Radicalizing Federal Courts with Alarming Speed

judicial_report_2020.png

VICTORY! Judge Halts Implementation of Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

trump_head_down.jpg

Lambda Legal Files Brief in Support of Transgender Employee Fighting Hobby Lobby

trans_flag_with_symbol.jpg

Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality Challenge Trump Administration's "Death to Asylum" Rule

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