Wake Up Call: Government Disability Rights Lawyers Face Cuts

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• The Trump administration is hollowing out the network of government lawyers who enforce disability rights, making it harder for people with disabilities to defend legal protections. Many Justice Department disability rights attorneys have left or been reassigned since Trump returned to office, while the administration has proposed deep cuts to federally funded, state-based “protection and advocacy” lawyers. (News From the States)
• The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division recently hired two Republican lawyers that were involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Christopher Gardner, who worked with Trump-aligned lawyers on the fake elector scheme in Georgia, and Megan Frederick, who has worked with Cleta Mitchell, are now representing DOJ in lawsuits demanding broad, unredacted voter records from states and Washington, D.C. (Democracy Docket)
• Miami trial lawyer Alan Graham Greer died at 86. Over a 52-year career, Greer handled major political, environmental, and commercial cases, including defending John Ehrlichman and Bebe Rebozo in the Watergate cases and representing the Democratic Party in Bush v. Gore. (Miami Herald)