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Trump Administration Launches Another Eleventh Hour Attack on LGBTQ Community with New HHS Rule Inviting Grantees to Discriminate

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By Lambda Legal

January 8, 2021

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.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, United States
Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's "Death to Asylum" Rule

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By Lambda Legal

January 8, 2021

In response to a request from Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality, and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, the U.S.

See Also: Immigration, United States
Lambda Legal: Biden Choices for DOJ Confront Tall Task to Restore Trust in the Institution

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By Lambda Legal

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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By Lambda Legal

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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By Lambda Legal

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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By Lambda Legal

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.

See Also: Judicial Nominees
VICTORY! Judge Halts Implementation of Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

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By Lambda Legal

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, California