Impact Docket – 11/13/2025

Written By Shaeleigh Severino

This week demands action. Here are five ways you can push back right now:

Whether you have 2 minutes or 2 days, join the fight. Keep reading for more context.

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🔴 The Moment We’re In: After the Pause, the Pressure

Across federal agencies, we’re seeing an accelerating pattern: rules rewritten in the dark, systems built to intimidate rather than serve. The Department of Homeland Security’s new “Overhauled SAVE” system is already being used to challenge the citizenship of lawful voters. Immigrant workers are at risk of losing jobs as automatic work-permit extensions are rolled back. And nonprofits that stood up for climate and justice are still being forced to fight for survival in court.

But here’s what’s also true: lawyers, advocates, and communities are refusing to yield. From the courtroom to the comment docket, people are showing what it means to hold the line—and to do it together. This week’s actions are part of that fight, and there’s more to come.

⚡ L4GG ACTIONS

🏛️ L4GG Webinar This Friday: Holding the Line—L4GG’s 2025 Fight and the Year Ahead

📍 Friday, November 14 at 1 PM ET | L4GG.org/HoldingTheLine

One year ago, we stood on the edge of one of the hardest chapters in our nation’s history. We knew an administration intent on rolling back civil and human rights would test every safeguard we’ve fought to protect—and it has.

Through attacks on the judiciary, federal funding, and lawyers themselves, the legal community has refused to back down. From our Law Day of Action—where over 10,000 lawyers reaffirmed their oath to defend the Constitution—to our growing Pro Bono Litigation Corps, we’ve held the line.

Join L4GG this Friday for “Holding the Line: L4GG’s 2025 Fight and the Year Ahead”, a look back at what we’ve achieved and where we go next. You’ll hear about L4GG’s nationwide response infrastructure, how our members are driving impact through pro bono work, and what’s coming in 2026.

Every lawyer, advocate, and supporter who’s chosen to act rather than despair is part of this story. Let’s take stock and chart the path forward—together.

⚖️ COFC Webinar Nov 19: Fighting Unlawful Grant Terminations—Pro Bono Opportunity & Training

📍 November 19 at 2 PM ET | L4GG.org/COFC 

Learn how you can help hundreds of nonprofits fight back against the Trump administration’s unlawful cancellation of climate, clean energy, and environmental justice grants.

Due to recent rulings, many grantees must now seek damages in the Court of Federal Claims (COFC)—a new and complex legal pathway. L4GG is launching an innovative clinic model to coordinate hundreds of pre-filing breach-of-contract cases, transforming individual disputes into mass accountability.

This first session provides:
✅ An overview of COFC practice and how it differs from district court litigation
✅ Details on a limited-scope pro bono opportunity—about 30 hours over 3–6 months—to help clients prepare their claims
✅ A preview of the follow-up training (TBD Date) for volunteers who commit to cases

Join Lawyers for Good Government and COFC practitioner Joshua Schnell of Cordatis LLP to learn how legal volunteers can help restore justice for unlawfully terminated grantees.

🛠️ PARTNER ACTIONS

🗳️ Submit a Public Comment: Stop DHS’s Unlawful “Overhauled SAVE” System

📍 Deadline: December 1

Our partners at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have uncovered a dangerous new scheme within the Department of Homeland Security: a massive “Overhauled SAVE” system that secretly expands government access to Social Security and passport data to conduct citizenship checks on voter rolls.

This system is already being used by states to accuse eligible voters—especially naturalized citizens—of being “non-citizens” and to launch wrongful investigations and voter purges. It also centralizes sensitive personal information in a single, target-rich national database, posing huge risks for privacy violations and identity theft.

The administration has opened a narrow window for public comments through December 1, and it’s critical that the public record reflects the legal and human consequences of this unlawful data expansion.

CREW and partners are asking individuals and organizations to submit comments opposing this system.
✅ Learn more about how DHS’s actions violate the Privacy Act and endanger voters
✅ Emphasize the risk to naturalized citizens and the unreliability of SAVE data
✅ Highlight the security threat of aggregating millions of Americans’ records
✅ Submit your comment through by December 1

Your voice can help stop a national voter database that threatens both privacy and democracy.

💼 Submit a Comment: Stop DHS from Ending Automatic Work-Permit Extensions

📍 Deadline: December 1

Our partners at the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) are calling for advocates to speak out against the Department of Homeland Security’s new proposed rule ending automatic work-permit extensions.

This policy change would strip away critical protections that prevent workers—especially asylum seekers and TPS holders—from losing jobs simply because of government backlogs. Without automatic extensions, thousands could face sudden employment gaps, lost income, and economic instability.

Comments are due by December 1, and the public record needs to reflect what’s at stake for families, businesses, and communities.
✅ Use this template to customize your comment
✅ Submit your comment before the deadline
✅ Read more from Bloomberg Law and Univision, or check out these resources and cheat sheet for background.

Your comment can help stop a rule that puts immigrant workers—and the employers who rely on them—at risk.

💬 Share Your Voice: Together We Rise Thanksgiving Video

📍 Deadline: Tomorrow (Nov. 13) | Submit your reflection here

L4GG is a proud member of the Welcome With Dignity coalition, and our partners at the We Are All America campaign are inviting advocates nationwide to take part in a special “Together We Rise” Thanksgiving video—a collective message of belonging and solidarity for immigrant and refugee communities.

After ten months of relentless attacks on immigrant and refugee rights, this video will remind families across the country: you belong here, and we are still fighting for you.

Add your voice by sharing a short reflection on how immigrants and refugees have touched your life or work. Your words will help shape a collective script read by advocates across the country and released on Thanksgiving.
✅ Takes just a few sentences
✅ Submissions due Tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 13
✅ Form link: Submit your reflection here

We’ll be back in two weeks with more ways to take action—but the work doesn’t stop here. 

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Shaeleigh Severino
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