Today’s proposed HHS rule represents nothing less than our own government attacking LGBT people, everyone living with HIV, women and many others in urgent need of health care.
Today, Sharon McGowan, Director of Strategy at Lambda Legal, issued a statement in response to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote to approve 23 nominees.
Lambda Legal published an analysis of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) new rule, issued earlier in the day, creating a new unit within the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) called the “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.”
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.
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.
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