Impact Docket – 06/24/26
This week demands action. Here are 10 ways you can push back right now:
⚡ Quick Actions
Could you help protect the vote this fall? → Fill out our 2-minute interest form
Block Blanche: TOMORROW — join a 30-minute call-your-senator session → Register | Haven't signed the open letter yet? Add your name
Tell the Senate: Pass H.R. 1689 and protect Haitian TPS — SCOTUS decision imminent → 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
Challenge the OMB proposal threatening federal grant recipients → Sign up for resources and submit a comment by July 13
Tell HUD: Protect LGBTQI+ access to housing and shelter → Use resources (below) to submit a comment by June 29
🛠️ Long-Term Engagement
Volunteer with Detention Bridge — attorneys with language skills or access to interpreters urgently needed → Sign up today
🤝 Partner Actions
TOMORROW: Attorney training for Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action (July 17-19) → Register for the June 25 training
Stop USPS from interfering with mail-in voting → Use LDAD's resources (below) to submit a comment by July 2
Whether you have 2 minutes or 2 days, join the fight. Keep reading for more context.
🔴 The Moment We're In: 500 Days of Corruption — and Counting
On Monday, Senator Chris Murphy spent over an hour on the Senate floor documenting 500 days of corruption under this administration — from Acting AG Todd Blanche shutting down crypto fraud investigations while holding up to $500,000 in crypto investments, to no-bid government contracts steered to companies owned by senior officials. Yesterday, NBC News reported that the DOJ is struggling to find evidence of the widespread voter fraud the administration keeps promising, despite dedicating multiple federal agencies to the search.
This is the DOJ that Todd Blanche is asking the Senate to let him run permanently. His confirmation hearing is July 15-16— three weeks away. Tomorrow at 12:30 PM ET, L4GG is hosting a 30-minute training on how to call your senator and make the case against Blanche in 60 seconds. Thousands of attorneys have already signed our open letter. The hearing is coming. Show up before it does.
This week's docket has ten actions — from volunteering for election protection this fall, to submitting a comment by Monday opposing HUD's proposal to strip LGBTQI+ protections from federally funded housing and shelters, to stopping USPS from seizing control of mail-in voting from the states. Pick one. Start there.
⚡ QUICK ACTIONS
📜 Volunteer for Election Protection — National Opportunities
The DOJ is investigating states' voter rolls for fraud before any evidence exists — and the administration's pattern of manufacturing fraud narratives tends to escalate as elections approach. L4GG is building partnerships with leading voting rights organizations to deploy volunteer attorneys for election protection this fall.
Opportunities include remote election misinformation monitoring, multi-state purge chasing (reviewing flagged cases of eligible voters improperly removed from rolls in priority states including PA, NC, GA, MI, WI, KS, and IA), and in-person poll monitoring and challenger roles. Trainings will be provided. No election law background required.
Already filled out our Michigan-specific form back in April? No need to resubmit — but if you're also interested in national opportunities, fill out this form too and just note your prior Michigan signup
📜 Block Blanche: Call Your Senator + Sign the Open Letter
📍 L4GG.org/BlockBlancheCall | L4GG.org/BlockBlanche
Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing for Attorney General is expected July 15-16. Before then, senators need to hear from the people who took the same oath he did.
TOMORROW at 12:30 PM ET, join L4GG for a 30-minute call-your-senator training covering the case against Blanche in lawyer-to-lawyer terms, which senators are most reachable right now, a call script you can use immediately, and how to reach senators at their local offices during the upcoming recess. No advocacy experience necessary. Bring your phone — you'll leave ready to dial.
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. These positions are disqualifying.
Thousands of attorneys have signed our open letter. Add your name if you haven't already — and join tomorrow’s training to make your voice heard directly.
📜 Tell the Senate: Pass H.R. 1689 — Protect Haitian TPS
The Supreme Court could rule any day now on whether the administration can strip 350,000 Haitian TPS holders of their legal status. Last week, Senators Markey and Blunt Rochester introduced a Senate companion bill, and Leader Schumer is fast-tracking it to the Senate calendar. Congressional action has never been more urgent.
These are people who entered this country lawfully, earn $3.9 billion in household income, and pay nearly $1 billion in taxes annually. The administration claims conditions in Haiti have improved. They haven't — 6.4 million people need humanitarian assistance, armed gangs control most of the capital, and over 5,500 have been killed since March 2025. Tell your senators to pass H.R. 1689.
🏛️ STATE-LEVEL ADVOCACY
🩺 NJ RESIDENTS: Tell the NJ Assembly to Vote YES on S. 2260/A. 2218
📍The New Jersey Senate voted YES. A full Assembly vote is expected Monday or Tuesday.
This is it.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 codifies Governor Murphy's Executive Order 326 and expands 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. Send your letter in under 2 minutes!
📱 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
🏛️ Submit a Comment: Challenge the OMB Proposal Threatening Federal Grant Recipients
📍 Follow the steps below | Comment deadline: July 13
OMB and 41 other federal agencies have proposed a sweeping rule that would affect every organization receiving federal funding — nonprofits, universities, cities, state agencies, and Tribes. The rule would make it easier for agencies to terminate grants, limit issue advocacy, and weaponize the federal grant process against organizations that pursue entirely lawful activities.Register to access L4GG and EPN's comment training recording and resources — the team will send these out later this weekNeed help? Join L4GG and EPN's office hours on July 2 or July 9 for one-on-one support.Draft your comment and submit it via the Federal Register by July 13, 2026Let us know you submitted at L4GG.org/TrackComment
🏠 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.The comment deadline is next Monday, June 29. Don't wait.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
🛠️ LONG-TERM ENGAGEMENT
🌉 Volunteer with L4GG's Detention Bridge Project — Attorneys with Language Skills or Access to Interpreters Needed
L4GG is urgently seeking attorneys to support detained immigrants at Fort Bliss and Dilley Detention Centers — both in person and remotely — to conduct intakes, document conditions for advocacy and litigation, and serve as counsel for bond hearings, habeas petitions, and individual immigration cases. Right now, we especially need attorneys with language skills and/or access to interpreters to conduct intakes. Sign up and complete the training requirements you'll receive by email.No immigration experience required. L4GG provides malpractice insurance, research access, mentoring, and administrative support. Sign up today!
🤝 Partner Actions
⚖️ TOMORROW: Attorney Training for Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action (July 17-19)
📍 Register here | Thursday, June 25 | 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. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will speak. Register here.
🗳️ Submit a Comment: Stop USPS from Interfering with Mail-In Voting
📍 Follow the steps below | Comment deadline: July 2
The U.S. Postal Service has published a proposed rule that would shift control over mail-in voting from the states to a federal agency under the president's control — conditioning ballot access on state compliance with federally imposed requirements. If implemented, this rule risks disenfranchising millions of registered voters and wreaking havoc on the system of mail-in voting. Our partners at Lawyers Defending American Democracy have put together everything you need to take action.Read LDAD's Action Alert and Briefing MaterialsSubmit your comment via the Federal Register by July 2, 2026Let LDAD know you submitted via their form
📅 Save the Date: L4GG's 10th Anniversary Convening — Feb 2027
The attorneys, advocates, and movement-builders who have shaped L4GG's first ten years are coming together — and we want you in the room. Join us in Washington, D.C. for a landmark convening to celebrate our community and build our next chapter. Sign up to be the first to know when registration opens. Your feedback shapes the programming.
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