Impact Docket – 06/10/26
This week demands action. Here are 12 ways you can push back right now:
⚡ Quick Actions
Add your name: Attorney sign-on letter opposing Todd Blanche as Attorney General → Sign the open letter
Tell the Senate: Reject Schwartz for the Second Circuit — committee vote THURSDAY → Write to your senators
Tell the Senate: Protect federal funding for farm solar → Write to your senators
🏛️ State-Level Advocacy
NJ RESIDENTS: Tell the NJ Assembly to pass S. 2260/A. 2218 — shield providers from out-of-state attacks → Send your letter in 2 minutes
CA RESIDENTS: Tell your state Senator to stop the social media ban — A.B. 1709 → Send your letter in 2 minutes
📩 Short-Term Engagement — Public Comments & Trainings
Protect waterways from toxic coal plant wastewater → Use resources (below) to submit a comment by June 17
Comment training: Challenging the OMB proposal threatening federal grant recipients → Register for our June 23 training
Oppose federal employee nondisclosure agreements → Use resources (below) to submit a comment by June 26
Tell HUD: Protect LGBTQI+ access to housing and shelter → Use resources (below) to submit a comment by June 29
🛠️ Long-Term Engagement
Pro Bono Litigation Corps action update: Learn about L4GG’s current cases and get involved → Register for the June 24 briefing
🤝 Partner Actions
Attorney training: Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action (July 17-19) → Register for the June 17 training
Share your medication abortion story with the Mife Stories Project → Submit anonymously
Whether you have 2 minutes or 2 days, join the fight. Keep reading for more context.
🔴 The Moment We're In: Signed, Sealed, Unchecked
Yesterday, Trump signed a $72 billion reconciliation bill funding ICE and CBP through the end of his presidency — without any meaningful guardrails against agents’ conduct moving forward.. For 76 days, lawyers and advocates held the line on DHS funding, demanding the bare minimum of accountability after federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Congressional Republicans bypassed every one of those reforms through reconciliation, and the president signed it into law while ICE agents confronted protesters outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark.
Trump has also formally nominated Todd Blanche — the man who built the $1.8 billion slush fund that a federal judge is now investigating as potential fraud on the court— as his permanent Attorney General. The Senate Judiciary Committee has received his nomination. And on Thursday, that same committee votes on whether to give Matthew Schwartz — Trump's other personal attorney, currently defending his felony conviction on appeal — a lifetime seat on the Second Circuit.
This is what it looks like when every guardrail comes off at once — funding, enforcement, the courts, and the Justice Department itself. And this is why every action in this docket matters. From opposing Blanche's confirmation and Schwartz's appointment, to protecting farm solar funding the administration already tried to kill, to submitting comments on rules targeting LGBTQI+ housing, federal employees, and clean water.
Twelve actions. Pick one. Start there.
⚡ QUICK ACTIONS
📜 Tell the Senate: Oppose Todd Blanche as Attorney General
It's official. Trump has formally nominated Todd Blanche — his former personal criminal defense attorney — as permanent Attorney General. The nomination has been received by the Senate and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The confirmation fight starts now.
Under Blanche, the DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, created a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund that a federal judge is now investigating as potential fraud on the court, and moved to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of those who attacked the Capitol on January 6. Blanche has said publicly that Americans should be "happy" the president is "deeply involved" in DOJ decisions. These positions are disqualifying.
More than 2,000 attorneys have already signed our open letter to the Senate. Add your name and spread the word.
📜 Tell the Senate: Reject Matthew Schwartz for the Second Circuit — Committee Vote TOMORROW
The Senate Judiciary Committee votes Thursday 6/11 on whether to advance Matthew Schwartz to the full Senate. Schwartz is currently representing Trump in the appeal of his 34-count felony conviction and in the appeal of a finding that Trump fraudulently inflated asset values by up to $2.2 billion annually. His reward is a lifetime seat on the court with jurisdiction over the very district that prosecuted his client.
Schwartz has also asked the Supreme Court to overturn the precedent protecting Americans from housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, and argued against class certification for investors defrauded by Barclays. The president has said publicly that it is "OK" for justices to be "loyal to the person that appointed them." Schwartz is who that loyalty test produces.
If you have a Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee, your voice matters most right now. Tell them to vote NO TOMORROW.
📜 Tell the Senate: Protect Federal Funding for Farm Solar
Solar has quietly become one of the few things keeping struggling farms afloat — cutting energy bills and, through agrivoltaics, letting farmers grow crops or graze animals under the panels while the land keeps earning. The House just passed a farm bill that would block federal funding for solar on farmland, with language so broad it could sweep in these farm-friendly projects too. A second provision bans any project using parts from countries like China — which makes most of the world's solar panels — meaning almost nothing would qualify in practice.
The administration already canceled roughly $7 billion in solar funding in 2025, prompting a lawsuit from more than a dozen state attorneys general. Farmers who applied for grants in good faith had commitments revoked mid-process. The Senate is writing its version of the farm bill right now. Tell them this provision is badly drafted, legally muddy, and breaks faith with farmers.
🏛️ STATE-LEVEL ADVOCACY
🩺 NJ RESIDENTS: Tell the NJ Assembly to Vote YES on S. 2260/A. 2218
The New Jersey Senate voted YES. Now the bill needs to be passed by the Assembly.Since Dobbs, hostile states are reaching across state lines — through civil suits, criminal indictments, and coordinated harassment campaigns — to punish care that is fully legal in the provider's own state.
S. 2260/A. 2218 closes that gap by codifying Governor Murphy's Executive Order 326 and expanding protections to cover both reproductive and gender-affirming care. It confirms that NJ providers and patients are subject solely to New Jersey and federal law — and that out-of-state subpoenas, judgments, and criminal processes targeting lawful care will not be honored here.
Two ways to show up right now:
✉️ Send your letter in under 2 minutes at L4GG.org/ShieldNJ — we've already drafted it. A legislator who hears from constituents before a floor vote pays attention.
🏛️ Rally at the State House TOMORROW AT 11 AM — join LGBTQ+ advocates, allies, and legislators in Trenton to send a clear message that New Jerseyans want and deserve access to safe, protected healthcare.
📱 CA RESIDENTS: Tell Your State Senator to Stop the Social Media Ban — A.B. 1709
A.B. 1709 would ban everyone under 16 from social media — and to enforce it, platforms would push age verification on everyone, meaning adults could be forced to hand over a government ID or biometric data just to log in. Courts across the country have already struck down bans like this as unconstitutional. The bill is being fast-tracked through the state Senate this month.
As a lawyer, your voice carries real weight: tell your state Senator there's no "kid exception" to the First Amendment — and California shouldn't hand taxpayers the bill for defending a law that's unconstitutional on its face. Send your letter in 2 minutes.
📩 SHORT-TERM ENGAGEMENT
🏛️ Comment Training: Challenging the OMB Proposal Threatening Federal Grant Recipients
📍 L4GG.org/OMBTraining | Monday, June 23 | 2:00 PM ET | Zoom
OMB and 41 other federal agencies have proposed a sweeping new rule that would affect every organization receiving federal funding — nonprofits, universities, cities, state agencies, and Tribes. The rule would transform OMB guidance into binding regulations, add burdensome new requirements on grantees, make it easier for agencies to terminate grants or issue stop-work orders, limit issue advocacy, and expand Buy America requirements to non-infrastructure projects. If finalized, this rule could weaponize the federal grant process against organizations that pursue entirely lawful activities.
Join L4GG, the Environmental Protection Network, and partners for a training on what the rule does, how the public comment process works, and step-by-step instructions for submitting a comment that counts. Comment templates will be provided. This session will be recorded.
The comment deadline is July 13. Register today.
🏠 Submit a Comment: Tell HUD to Protect LGBTQI+ Access to Housing and Shelter
📍 Follow the steps below | Comment deadline: June 29
The Trump administration has proposed rescinding the Equal Access Rule — the federal guarantee that HUD-funded housing and homeless services are available regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status. The proposed replacement would force recipients of federal funding to discriminate against transgender people seeking shelter, mandate that facilities assign people based on "immutable biological classification," allow providers to demand "reasonable assurances or evidence" of a person's sex, and threaten to revoke federal funding from any state or local entity that follows its own civil rights laws instead.
This rule would strip protections from LGBTQI+ families in HUD-subsidized housing and put transgender people experiencing homelessness at direct risk of harassment, violence, and unsheltered homelessness.
Check out the following resources from our partners: [Analysis #1], [Analysis #2], and [Fact Sheet]
Submit your comment via the Federal Register by June 29, 2026.
Let us know you submitted at L4GG.org/TrackComment
📝 Submit a Comment: Oppose Federal Employee Nondisclosure Agreements
📍 Follow the steps below | Comment deadline: June 26
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has published a proposed rule that would permit federal agencies to require their employees to sign nondisclosure agreements. Muting the federal workforce with the threat of job loss and civil and criminal penalties undermines the rule of law. This proposal is an effort to silence federal employees and avoid accountability in the federal government.
Read Lawyers Defending American Democracy's action alert
Draft your comment and submit it via the Federal Register by June 26, 2026
Let us know you submitted at L4GG.org/TrackComment
🏭 Submit a Comment: Protect Waterways from Toxic Wastewater from Coal Plants
📍 Follow the steps below | Comment deadline: June 17
EPA is proposing to roll back protections that would have required over a hundred coal plants to treat toxic "unmanaged" leachate wastewater under the Steam Electric Effluent Limitation Guidelines. The proposed rule would also allow permitting authorities to set case-by-case pollution limits for coal ash wastewater, rather than enforcing strong national standards. This would make it easier for coal plants to pollute rivers, lakes, streams, and drinking water sources with toxic metals such as arsenic, mercury, and lead.
Read Clean Water for All's Comment Toolkit
Draft your comment and submit it via the Federal Register by June 17, 2026
Let us know you submitted at L4GG.org/TrackComment
🛠️ LONG-TERM ENGAGEMENT
⚖️ PBLC Action Update: Learn About Current Cases + Get Involved
📍 L4GG.org/PBLCBriefing | Wednesday, June 24 | 3:00 PM ET | Zoom
In its first year, the Pro Bono Litigation Corps has protected the medical records of 3,000 children, obtained habeas relief and release for immigrants detained by ICE, and persuaded the federal government to retract new funding conditions imposed on grantees — with more cases filed every month. Join the PBLC team for a special briefing on current cases and litigation strategies across environmental justice, immigration, civil rights, and federal employee whistleblower protections. You'll hear how volunteer attorneys are making a meaningful impact and how to get involved in upcoming matters. This session will be recorded. Register today!
🤝 Partner Actions
⚖️ Attorney Training: Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action (7/17-19)
📍 Register here | Wednesday, June 17 | 2:00 PM ET | Virtual
Six years after the passing of Congressman John Lewis, the fight for voting rights continues with the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action from July 17-19 — a nationwide push for voter registration and civic engagement. Join our partners at the Not Above the Law Coalition for a training on how attorneys can provide legal support, including serving as legal observers at voter registration events, volunteering on election protection hotlines, speaking at community events, developing Know Your Rights materials, and more. Register here.
📢 Share Your Story: The Mife Stories Project
The FDA is reviewing access to mifepristone while extremists flood the process with junk science and misinformation. Our partners at Abortion Access Front are leading the Mife Stories Project — a coalition campaign collecting 1,000 real medication abortion stories to counter that misinformation with lived experience and deliver them directly to the FDA.
The submission form is anonymous, takes minutes, and collects no names, emails, or IP addresses. If you've had a medication abortion, your story is evidence. If you haven't, share this with someone who has. Submit your story here.
📅 Save the Date: L4GG's 10th Anniversary Convening — Feb 2027
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