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Mitch McConnell Is Putting Senators at Risk to Vote on Trump's Unqualified Nominees

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By Kylee Reynolds

May 19, 2020

As most of us continue on with our social distancing as recommended by the CDC to help curb the spread of the increasingly deadly pandemic, the members of the United States Senate are back in Washington to do what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls “the job we need to do for the American people.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Coronavirus, Fair Courts Project
Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Uphold the Affordable Care Act

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By Lambda Legal

May 13, 2020

Today, Lambda Legal and Ropes & Gray filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 16 nonprofit organizations that advocate for people living with HIV. The brief argues in support of 19 states and DC, led by California, and the U.S. House of Representatives who are collectively defending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and appealing a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that invalidates a key provision of the ACA and threatens the law in its entirety.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV
10th Circuit Court Orders State Department to Reconsider Decision to Deny Intersex Vet an Accurate Passport

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By Lambda Legal

May 12, 2020

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit today rejected three of the five reasons the U.S. State Department gave for denying an accurate passport to Dana Zzyym, a U.S. Navy veteran who is intersex and nonbinary, and does not identify as male or female. While the Tenth Circuit held the State Department exercised its authority in an arbitrary and capricious manner, it nonetheless overturned a U.S. District Court ruling in favor of Zzyym and ordered the State Department to reconsider Dana’s passport application anew.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Intersex, Colorado
Statement on Death of Aimee Stephens, Transgender Rights Hero

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By Kevin Jennings

May 12, 2020

Aimee Stephens, plaintiff in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. EEOC, has died. Kevin Jennings, CEO of Lambda Legal has issued the following statement.
Lambda Legal Statement on Senate Vote Amending Puerto Rico’s Civil Code

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By Lambda Legal

May 11, 2020

Today, after the Puerto Rico Senate approved a new Civil Code for the Commonwealth affecting the rights of LGBTQ people, Lambda Legal, through Senior Attorney and Puerto Rico native, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, released the following statement.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Puerto Rico
At the Supreme Court this Week: Religious Objections, Birth Control, and Trump’s No Good, Very Broad Rules

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By Jennifer C. Pizer

May 8, 2020

While every Supreme Court proceeding has drama, there’s extra excitement now.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
VICTORY: Lesbian Couple to Have Their Day in Court in Challenge to HHS and South Carolina Foster Care Policy

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By Lambda Legal

May 8, 2020

The couple was turned away by a government-funded foster care agency because they, as a lesbian couple, did not meet the agency’s religious criteria, which excludes prospective foster parents who are not evangelical Protestant Christian or who are same-sex couples of any faith.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, South Carolina