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Women Lawyers On Guard is a national non-partisan organization harnessing the power of lawyers and the law in coordination with other organizations to preserve, protect, and defend the democratic values of equality, justice, and opportunity for all.
WLGAN sends letters to Garland and others regarding ERA
We have been advocating on your behalf. In the last two weeks we have sent letters to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the White House Gender Policy Council regarding steps we think they should take to clear the way for, and support the ERA; and the U.S....
WLG files important abortion-rights amicus brief
WLG has filed its own amicus curiae brief in the Sixth Circuit case of Bristol Regional Women’s Center, P.C., v Slatery in support of the appellees, the clinics that successfully challenged Tennessee’s 48-hour statutory waiting period for abortions. [Brief HERE]....
Practical Tips: Breaking Through the COVID Wall
Did you miss International Women's Day? No matter -- we don't need just one day; we need every day. And we have a program to help, on April 8th. The headlines scream about the devastating effect of the pandemic on women and people of color in our country: Female...
Finally, some good news
Finally. Some good news for women in this country after four rotten years. The Biden-Harris administration will soon constitute a Gender Policy Council, with one full-time Co-Chair and additional staff, and with the elevated status of a White House initiative. It will...
WLG Letters to the Editor in the Washington Post
In connection with Justice Ginsburg's passing, the Washington Post published two letters written by WLG directors Cory Amron and Lorelie Masters, available here:...
WLG mourns RBG
Although she stood only 5'1", we lost a giant. Strategic and skilled in advocacy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a stalwart advocate for gender equality and women's rights, for instance in her work founding the Women's Right Project at the ACLU and as only the second woman...