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Washington, D.C. – Two members of the publisher’s advisory board for Stars and Stripes, the military’s independent news source since the Civil War, are challenging the implementation of a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) memo that unlawfully repealed longstanding regulations governing Stars and Stripes and dismantled the newspaper’s editorial independence — attempting to censor “the soldiers’ paper.” The complaint, filed in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, comes from...

Baltimore – Groups representing nonprofit organizations, university professors, and federal contractors and subcontractors throughout the nation are challenging a new Trump executive order that seeks to undermine efforts designed to promote inclusion and help ensure equal opportunity.

Boston – The First Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a Trump-Vance administration request to overturn a court order that is blocking the administration’s attempts to implement unlawful and unreasonable restrictions that seek to shift funding away from proven solutions to homelessness.

Washington, D.C. — A federal court granted the Trump-Vance administration’s request to pause the effects of its order requiring the U.S. Agency for Global Media to bring Voice of America (VOA) staff back to work, allowing employees to remain on administrative leave for now, while the case proceeds. The district court had previously ruled that the administration’s actions to dismantle USAGM, suspend broadcasts, and place more than 1,000 employees on administrative leave were unlawful.

Washington, D.C. – Two former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairs and six non-profit consumer advocacy groups have united to submit a friend-of-the-court brief in consolidated cases before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the FCC’s ability to hold wireless carriers accountable for data breaches and other violations of consumer privacy rights. The brief was submitted in FCC v. Verizon and AT&T v.

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rushed the approval of the largest broadcast merger in history due to political influence, signing off on a deal between Nexstar and TEGNA in contradiction to laws established by Congress and FCC procedures, according to an appeal filed today by Free Press, Communications Workers of America, the United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry, Inc. and Public Knowledge. The coalition is represented in the case by Democracy Forward.

Washington, D.C. — A broad coalition of labor unions, health care providers, schools, faith groups, and individual workers suing to stop the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful “Innovation Ban” is highlighting new government guidance that appears to walk back the policy’s most extreme provision.

The EEOC is responsible for enforcing the nation’s federal workplace anti-discrimination laws. The agency is tasked with addressing unlawful workplace discrimination in almost every aspect of employment, including hiring, pay, benefits, assignments, promotions, work environments, discipline, and layoffs. But the EEOC is now failing to perform this core duty by refusing to enforce workplace discrimination protections for transgender workers.

Resource Tracks Key Cases Nation’s Highest Court Will Consider this Term Washington, D.C. –  Democracy Forward, a leading pro-democracy legal institution, today published The People’s Guide to the 2025-26 Supreme Court Term, the latest in its resources to help people better understand what is happening in the courts that affects their communities.

President Undermines Agency’s Independence and Violates the Law With Removal Washington, D.C. – Unlawfully dismissed Surface Transportation Board (STB) member Robert E. Primus filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration today, asking a federal court to allow him to do his job on the independent board that oversees the economic regulation of railroads and other interstate land and water transportation.