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The federal district court in Washington denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss claims against the United States over the actions of federal Park Police, Secret Service, and other agency officers who beat and gassed peaceful civil rights demonstrators at Lafayette Square.
“The Trump administration's decision to deny gender-affirming care approved by its own doctors is unconstitutional and part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life. Trans people deserve access to critical medical care like everyone else."
The Metropolitan Police Department’s decision to reinstate police officers who were convicted for their roles in a murder and cover-up is an affront to public safety in the District.
Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today to halt the transfer of immigrants from the United States to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba under President Trump’s recent order.
Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration for access to immigrants transferred from the United States to detention at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba under President Trump’s recent order.
“We need today’s Congress to step up to protect our merit-based, nonpartisan civil service, and to prevent Trump’s latest attempt to hijack the federal government for his own political ends.”