“… LGBTQ people can now have confidence that the federal government will actually defend, rather than resist, our right to be free from discrimination.”
President Biden today rescinded the Trump administration executive order that prohibited federal contractors and grantees from conducting workplace diversity trainings or engaging in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.
Lambda Legal and a coalition of service and advocacy groups filed suit against the Trump administration for rolling back religious freedom protections that required faith-based organizations providing critical, taxpayer-funded services (like food and shelter) to inform recipients of their legal rights to b
Today, the incoming Biden-Harris administration has announced plans to tap Dr. Rachel L. Levine to serve as assistant secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Thursday announced a rule that will permit social service agencies and providers that receive HHS grant funding to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as religion and sex.
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 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:
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.
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.