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“One has to wonder if they’re doing it so they don’t have access to counsel, so that they can be held without rights, and so that the government can have these photo ops,” said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Lee Gelernt.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat and named defendant in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit, said that the state’s law is sound and has “been upheld by the courts time and time again.”
“The Passport Policy […] is motivated by impermissible animus,” ACLU attorney Jessie Rossman wrote in the lawsuit. “It cannot be justified under any level of judicial scrutiny, and it wrongly seeks to erase the reality that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people exist today as they always have.”
“The Trump administration’s attack on public health research funding is a direct attack on our state, which has long led the nation in medical and health innovations that have saved countless lives across our country,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a statement. “
“CFPB employees have been placed in questionable status as they have been directed not to work but they have not been formally placed on any authorized type of leave,” the National Treasury Employees Union said. “It is substantially like that these initial directives are a precursor to a purge of CFPB’s workforce, which is now prohibited from fulfilling the agency’s statutory mission.”
“When companies mislead customers to boost their profits by stealing tips intended for their workers, they are cheating their consumers, their employees, and their competitors who play by the rules,” D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said.
“The conduct of officials in Chicago and Illinois minimally enforcing—and oftentimes affirmatively thwarting—federal immigration laws over a period of years has resulted in countless criminals being released into Chicago who should have been held for immigration removal from the United States,” the lawsuit alleges.
“President Trump’s actions to dissolve USAID exceed presidential authority and usurp legislative authority conferred upon Congress by the Constitution, in violation of the separation of powers,” the lawsuit alleges.
“In the context of this case, disclosure of OSHA records to the leader of multiple companies with ongoing OSHA investigations presents clear risks both to workers and to the integrity of OSHA’s enforcement efforts,” the lawsuit says.
Labor unions criticized the short, nine-day resignation window provided to federal employees, with the lawsuit calling the original deadline “an arbitrary date […] selected to put maximum pressure on the federal workforce so that they would accept the offer, in many cases contrary to federal agency and federal employee interests.”