Impact Docket – 06/03/26
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 → Write to your senators
Tell Congress: Vote NO on $71 billion more for ICE → Write to Congress
🏛️ State-Level Advocacy
NJ RESIDENTS: The Senate votes TOMORROW — tell your legislators to shield providers from out-of-state attacks → Send your letter in 2 minutes
NY RESIDENTS: Call your legislators before session ends — pass the Maternal Health, Dignity, and Consent Act → Details below
📩 Short-Term Engagement
Oppose weakened rules for coal ash dumps → Use resources (below) to submit a comment by June 12
Comment training: Challenging the OMB proposal threatening federal grant recipients → Register for the June 23 training
Tell HUD: Protect LGBTQI+ access to housing and shelter → Use resources (below) to submit a comment by June 29
🛠️ Long-Term Engagement
PBLC action update: Learn about current cases and get involved → Register for the June 24 briefing
🤝 Partner Actions
Stand with EPA workers punished for speaking out → Sign the petition
TOMORROW: Delaney Hall and beyond — showing up strategically for detained immigrants → Register for the 8 PM ET briefing
🎉 Save the Date!
L4GG's 10th Anniversary Convening in D.C. → Sign up to be first to know!
Whether you have 2 minutes or 2 days, join the fight. Keep reading for more context.
🔴 The Moment We're In: Fraud on the Court
Last week, the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" was scrapped after public pressure, a court order, and bipartisan backlash. But the story didn't end there. On Friday, a federal judge opened an investigation into whether Trump's lawyers committed fraud on the court to create the fund in the first place — after 35 former federal judges filed a brief alleging "manipulation of the judicial system." Trump's lawyers have until June 12 to respond.
Meanwhile, the man who built the fund is about to be rewarded for it. Trump announced plans to make Todd Blanche the permanent Attorney General. The DOJ is already using the Supreme Court's Callais decision to target majority-minority districts ahead of the midterms. And Bill Pulte — who led the administration's campaign to target Trump's critics — was just named acting Director of National Intelligence.
The Senate could vote as soon as tomorrow on $71 billion more for ICE and CBP with no guardrails. HUD is proposing to strip LGBTQI+ protections from federally funded housing and shelters. And OMB wants to weaponize the federal grant process against any organization that doesn't fall in line.
This docket has 12 ways to fight back. Keep reading.
⚡ QUICK ACTIONS
📜 Tell the Senate: Oppose Todd Blanche as Attorney General
Blanche has stated publicly that Americans should be "happy" the president is "deeply involved" in DOJ decisions, and dismissed White House independence from the Department of Justice as "the most false statement I have ever heard." These positions are disqualifying.
This week, Trump announced he plans to make Blanche the permanent Attorney General — making our open letter more urgent than ever. Sign our attorney letter to the Senate and spread the word.
📜 Tell the Senate: Reject Matthew Schwartz for the Second Circuit
Trump has nominated his personal attorney to a lifetime seat on the Second Circuit — the court that hears appeals from the Southern District of New York. Matthew 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 nomination to 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. Tell the Senate to vote NO on his confirmation.
📜 Tell Congress: Vote NO on $71 Billion More for ICE
We've been holding this line since January. The Senate could vote as soon as tomorrow.
After months of pressure from lawyers, advocates, and more than 1,000 organizations — L4GG among them — DHS appropriations stalled for 75 days because Democrats demanded real guardrails. Congressional Republicans responded with reconciliation: a fast-track process to bypass the filibuster and every reform on the table.
The reconciliation bill would allocate $71 billion in new mandatory funds for ICE and CBP — on top of the $170 billion Congress approved last summer by cutting health care and food assistance. No body cameras. No warrants. No restrictions on raids. Plus a wave of amendments designed to criminalize and surveil immigrant communities. Tell Congress: Vote NO.
🏛️ STATE-LEVEL ADVOCACY
🩺 NJ RESIDENTS: Tell the NJ Legislature to Vote YES on S. 2260/A. 2218 — The Senate Votes TOMORROW
The full New Jersey Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on S. 2260/A. 2218 — a bill that shields New Jersey providers, patients, and the people who support them from out-of-state attacks on lawful healthcare. Texas is suing California doctors. Louisiana is indicting New York physicians. New Jersey's 2022 shield law was a national first — but the threats have escalated faster than anyone anticipated. This bill closes the gaps.
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.
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 on June 11, 9 AM–12 PM (TBD) — join LGBTQ+ advocates, allies, and legislators in person to send a clear message that New Jerseyans want and deserve
📩 SHORT-TERM ENGAGEMENT
🏭 Submit a Comment: Oppose Weakened Rules for Coal Ash Dumps
📍Follow the steps below | Comment deadline: June 12
The EPA is proposing to weaken rules on coal ash — the toxic byproduct of coal-fired power plants. This rule would exempt plant owners from ensuring their coal ash isn't polluting groundwater and poisoning nearby residents, and give more latitude to states to regulate these sites despite historic evidence that many states haven't used that authority to protect their residents.
Read Earthjustice and Sierra Club's Comment Toolkit and draft your comment
Submit your comment via the Federal Register by June 12, 2026
Let us know you submitted at L4GG.org/TrackComment
🏛️ Comment Training: Challenging the OMB Proposal Threatening Federal Grant Recipients
📍 | 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
🛠️ 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!
🎉 Community Impact: The Slush Fund Is Dead
Two weeks ago, our Executive Director Traci Feit Love went on MSNow’s Deadline: White House and called the DOJ's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" exactly what it was: "A giant conflict of interest masquerading as a legal outcome." Yesterday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress the fund is scrapped — "We are not moving forward with the fund, period." A federal court had already blocked it. Public pressure from lawyers, advocates, and members of both parties made it politically untenable.
But Blanche is still running the DOJ — and Trump just announced plans to make him the permanent Attorney General. The open letter matters more now than ever. 1,700+ attorneys have signed. Add your name today and spread the word!
🤝 Partner Actions
✊ Stand with EPA Workers Punished for Speaking Out
One year ago, hundreds of EPA employees signed a dissent letter alerting the public to serious threats to science, public health, and the environment. The agency responded by firing and suspending them — even after internal attorneys and ethics officials warned that punishing workers for speaking out could create serious legal and constitutional concerns. The administration moved forward anyway.
Sign the petition to EPA Administrator Zeldin urging him to restore fired workers to their positions and reverse the penalties imposed on employees who spoke out to protect public health.
🏛️ TOMORROW: Delaney Hall and Beyond — Showing Up Strategically for Detained Immigrants
📍 Register here | TOMORROW, Thursday, June 4 | 8:00 PM ET | Zoom
Since May 22, people detained at the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark have been engaged in hunger and labor strikes demanding dignity, accountability, and freedom. ICE has responded with force. Join Indivisible for a virtual briefing with organizers who have been on the ground — hear what detainees are experiencing and demanding, and learn how to show up strategically for strikers at Delaney Hall and detention facilities nationwide. This call is for everyone, not just those near Newark. Register here!
📅 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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