Press Release

Lambda Legal Unveils Findings of Its Four-Year Effort to Document Trump’s Judicial Appointments, Providing Complete Snapshot of Outsized Impact Trump Has Had on Reshaping the Courts and Creating a Landscape Hostile Toward Civil Rights

“Judge Freeman saw this ban for what it is: An effort to quash the truth and sweep under the rug an honest and long overdue reckoning with sexism and structural racism in our society.”

Today, Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Second District Appellate Court of Illinois in support of Meggan Sommerville, a transgender woman, in her almost decade-long fight with her employer, Hobby Lobby, to gain access to the women’s facilities at work, facilities that match her gender identity.

"There is no place in any sport for discrimination of any kind…The global athletic community grows stronger when we welcome and champion all athletes – including LGBTQI+ athletes.”

“Just as with every single action on immigration that this administration has taken, the glaringly obvious goal of this rule is to end asylum altogether.”

“Courts across the country have overwhelmingly determined these archaic and harmful laws are unconstitutional and today we are closer than ever to eradicating them once and for all.”

“From Day One non-stop through to its final moments, the Trump/Pence administration has been taking a sledgehammer to the wall of separation between church and state.”

(Washington, D.C., 10 diciembre 2020) - Hoy, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional y el Departamento de Justicia del presidente Donald Trump anunciaron que pronto publicarán una nueva regulación que destruiría el sistema de asilo de Estados Unidos.

(Washington, D.C., December 10, 2020) – Today, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice announced they will soon publish a new rule that eviscerates the United States asylum system.

(Washington, DC – December 9, 2020) -- In response to the U.S. Senate’s party line vote of 49-47 yesterday confirming the nomination of Stephen Schwartz to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Sasha Buchert, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal released the following statement: