Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) was proud to join Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) and local and national climate justice leaders at an Environmental Justice Roundtable hosted at the Greater New Orleans Foundation. The discussion focused on recent harmful Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decisions—including the termination of federal grant awards and the rollback of critical environmental protections—and how we can continue to push environmental justice forward under the Trump Administration.
Today, Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) is proud to launch the Pro Bono Litigation Corps (PBLC)—a first-of-its-kind initiative mobilizing experienced attorneys to take on some of the most pressing constitutional challenges of our time.
As we commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) today, August 16, there is much to celebrate about this historic legislation. The IRA represents the largest-ever climate investment in our country’s history, creating unprecedented opportunities for clean energy savings.
However, we at L4GG are acutely aware that historically marginalized communities often lack the resources to access the IRA’s historic funding opportunities. In response, we have intensified our efforts over the past two years to ensure that the benefits of the IRA reach those who need them most. See what we’ve been up to!
Not enough people are talking about the water crisis in Jackson, MS. On Tuesday, the Mississippi governor declared a state of emergency for Jackson’s water system, the city’s largest treatment plant. Most of the city’s 150,000 residents are without running water, having to rely on bottled water for drinking, showering, brushing their teeth, and cooking.
Staff and community members at Lawyers for Good Government are dismayed at the abuse of our federal government’s legal counsel to strip core, foundational constitutional rights from transgender Americans and call on all attorneys of conscience to stand united against this massive escalation in discriminatory action by the Trump administration.
Jillian Blanchard, Vice President of Climate Change & Environmental Justice at Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG), issued the following statement in reaction to the disappointing U.S. District Court ruling on class certification in the first-of-its kind lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful termination of $3 billion in Environmental and Climate Justice (ECJ) Block Grants:
“We are deeply disappointed by Friday’s ruling from Judge Richard J. Leon. His dismissal of this motion and denial of class certification leaves hundreds of under-resourced communities to fend for themselves in challenging one of the most sweeping and unlawful funding terminations in recent history.
“If these constitutional claims cannot be heard in a District Court, where can they be heard? The Federal Court of Claims—where Judge Leon has said these cases now belong—cannot hear Constitutional claims. This ruling delays relief for 350 grantees nationwide who have been promised money to address basic human needs, including clean air, clean water, and a resilience center to go to during a hurricane.
“These environmental justice grants were so much more than just contracts. They were commitments made by Congress to address longstanding harms and help local organizations build safer, healthier, more resilient communities, take lead out of drinking water, and reduce asthma rates in children. These are not political issues—they are life and death issues that Congress appropriated $3 billion to address.
“By dismissing this motion following the Supreme Court’s recent decision to try to force these cases into a small crowded court, the burden will fall on small nonprofits, Tribes, and local governments to find legal representation, file costly individual suits, and wait for justice, while their critical work remains stalled and their communities remain vulnerable.
“The decision, while damaging, does not address the key substantive issues associated with the unlawful termination of a complete, Congressionally-mandated program. That issue still needs to be resolved—in District Court—not in the Federal Court of Claims, which does not have the power to reinstate entire programs. They can only rule on breach of contract claims. This fragmentation is exactly what the administration was counting on: a divide and conquer strategy meant to impose a near-impossible barrier to overturning these unconstitutional cuts.
“But we are not walking away. This decision did not delve very much into the merits of the case, and instead was mostly based on an assessment the court did not have jurisdiction. As such, there is more room to pursue other legal avenues, all of which L4GG and its partners will pursue to obtain justice for these grantees. We remain committed to restoring this funding, holding power accountable, and ensuring that the communities most impacted by pollution, hurricanes, and dirty water, are not silenced or sidelined.”
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In the face of unprecedented legal attacks on the transgender community, Lawyers for Good Government today announced its launch of The Policy Resource Hub for Transgender Rights, a first-of-its-kind resource that brings legal clarity, accuracy and context to trans and nonbinary people, as well as families, advocates, legal or health service providers, legislators and journalists.
As anti-trans legislation spreads across 27 states—often in tandem with attacks on reproductive rights—and just two months after the Skrmetti decision, the Hub provides clear, accessible daily updates on the state of the law impacting transgender people’s lives, including statutes, policies, related litigation, and any constitutional or civil rights protections the state is required to uphold.
While existing trackers count proposed laws or map their spread, L4GG’s Hub focuses on what the law means to you right now. Every entry is reviewed by two attorney teams, and signed off on by L4GG’s expert in-house attorney Khadijah Silver, with publicly available citations and state-specific information built from the ground up by over 500 pro bono attorneys nationwide.
The Policy Resource Hub for Transgender Rights provides:
Daily tracking of state and federal legislation, executive actions, regulations, and court decisions.
Depth of legal analysis: Includes actionable legal analysis on how laws will be enforced in each state, and how they will interact with federal changes and precedents.
Anticipatory litigation strategy: As national protections are gutted, the Hub helps pro bono attorneys and advocates prepare for the coming surge of class actions and state-based lawsuits.
Practical utility: Equips trans parents, legal aid attorneys, clinicians, and frontline organizers with clear, accessible legal guidance on Title IX, sports participation laws, forced outing policies, document changes, interstate travel implications, and more—not just summaries and threat-mapping.
“This is the map through the chaos,” said Khadijah M. Silver, Esq. (they/them), a transgender civil rights attorney and L4GG’s supervising lawyer behind the Hub. “We’ve built the legal equivalent of a 24/7 weather radar for trans rights—because you shouldn’t need a law degree to know your rights, and you shouldn’t have your freedoms dictated by what ZIP code you live in.”
The Hub arrives at a pivotal moment:
In 27 states, gender-affirming care for minors is banned—impacting over 120,000 trans teens
Multiple states have enacted felony-level penalties for doctors and parents providing care
Title IX protections are in legal flux, and forced outing, bathroom, and school sports bans are rapidly expanding
In June 2025, the Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upheld Tennessee’s ban, shifting the legal battlefield to the states.
““Right now, trans people and their families are scared for their very ability to get care, send their kids to school, relocate safely, or simply live openly and authentically,” continued Silver. “This Hub is our promise to them: you are not alone. We built this so that every trans person, every parent, every provider, and every advocate can cut through the chaos, understand their rights, and know that we will stand with them—every single day.””
The Policy Resource Hub for Transgender Rights builds on L4GG’s commitment to legal clarity and access, following the successful launch of its Policy Resource Hub for Reproductive Health in 2022—a widely used tool for tracking abortion-related laws, litigation, and protections across the country.
To learn more or to speak with Khadijah about the Policy Resource Hub for Transgender Rights, please contact jordan@unbendablemedia.com
Jillian Blanchard, Vice President of Climate Change & Environmental Justice at Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG), issued a statement in reaction to today’s U.S. District Court hearing on class certification in the first-of-its kind lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful termination of $3 billion in Environmental and Climate Justice (ECJ) Block Grants.
Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) was proud to join Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) and local and national climate justice leaders at an Environmental Justice Roundtable hosted at the Greater New Orleans Foundation. The discussion focused on recent harmful Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decisions—including the termination of federal grant awards and the rollback of critical environmental protections—and how we can continue to push environmental justice forward under the Trump Administration.
Today's Supreme Court decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. represents a dangerous departure from our founding principles and poses an existential threat to the rule of law itself. By restricting federal courts' ability to issue universal injunctions against unconstitutional government actions, the Court has created what Justice Jackson aptly called a "zone of lawlessness" where the Executive can violate constitutional rights with impunity.
Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG), a nationwide nonprofit organization mobilizing lawyers in support of equal justice and civil and human rights, condemns in the strongest possible terms the Trump administration's refusal to comply with the Supreme Court's order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after his wrongful deportation to El Salvador.
Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) joined more than two dozen civil rights organizations in filing amicus briefs urging the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block the Trump administration’s executive orders threatening law firms and legal organizations for challenging the administration’s policies.
