Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche(whom President Donald Trump hired) will appoint a five-person panel to administer the money to people who claim that they suffered “lawfare” at the hands of the government. The fund could be used to write checks to those who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, or other allies of Trump, who himself has claimed he was the target of “lawfare” during…
Transphobes with law degrees could soon land $25,000 bonuses with the Justice Department.
New job listings for attorneys in the Civil Division are advertising those bonuses for attorneys interested in investigating youth transgender treatments, according to a new report in Bloomberg Law. The bonuses are also being offered to those interested in enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration…
A circuit court judge has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify how a recent emergency order impacts transgender citizens suing the State Department for not allowing their passports to display gender markers aligned with their identity.
Last November, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to stop issuing passports to transgender residents who do not feature a gender marker…
Rhode Island officials are refusing to turn over private medical records for trans youth to the Trump administration.
The Ocean State’s Office of Child Advocate has filed an emergency motion in federal court to quash a demand from the Justice Department seeking medical information for minors treated for gender dysphoria.
“The medical records of these children contain private information…
A federal judge has ordered Oregon to house transgender women prisoners based on gender identity, issuing a ruling that conflicts with President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring that inmates be housed based on sex assigned at birth.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke issued a preliminary injunction blocking the placement of transgender women in men’s facilities and ordered the…
The FBI sent a government plane to Cuba to prevent a transgender parent from providing her child with gender-affirming care.
According to court filings first reported by __The__ _New York Times_ , federal authorities took the unusual step as part of an international parental kidnapping investigation stemming from a custody dispute. The FBI believes Rose Inessa-Ethington, a transgender woman,…
The Bureau of Prisons could soon relocate transgender women inmates to men’s prisons.
A federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., ruled that 18 inmates failed to make a case that such transfers inherently amount to “cruel and unusual punishment,” reversing a lower court’s decision.
But the ruling still leaves room in the coming weeks for inmates to argue on an individual basis that they…
The Justice Department says a 20-year-old man tried to firebomb the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the most prominent out officials in Silicon Valley.
Daniel Moreno-Gama has been charged in federal court with attempted destruction of property by means of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to a criminal complaint filed in the…
Pam Bondi’s tenure as the nation’s attorney general has ended. But in less than 14 months as America’s top law enforcement official, the Republican waged a comprehensive campaign against LGBTQ+ equality on behalf of President Donald Trump.
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Another MAGA loyalist bites the dust!
Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired after a week of rumors flying that President Donald Trump was frustrated by her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The news sparked a hilarious backlash on social media, with critics roasting Bondi for being unceremoniously ousted despite spending her tenure at The White House defending Trump.
Bondi has been a…
The city of Louisville will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to a Kentucky photographer who challenged the city’s LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination law, ending a years-long case backed by a conservative legal group.
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Chelsey Nelson filed a lawsuit in 2019 challenging…