NWLC AF and allies ACLU, the Former JAGs Working Group, Minority Veterans of America, Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), Vet Voice Foundation, and Women in the Services Coalition, Inc. (WiSCI) issue this fact sheet explaining their support for the Women Add Resourcefulness and Resilience to Improve Operational Readiness (WARRIOR) Act, H.R. 8175/ S. 5189. The WARRIOR Act affirms […]
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, rejected Rep. LaMonica McIver’s (D-NJ) legislative immunity defense in charges stemming from her May 2025 oversight visit to the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in New Jersey. “Today’s decision is a grave miscarriage of justice,” said Fatima Goss Graves, National Women’s […]
In a recent shadow docket decision (NIH v. APHA), the U.S. Supreme Court made it extremely difficult to sue federal agencies to prevent them from unilaterally terminating federal grants, sometimes after imposing unlawful funding conditions. This loophole created by the Court puts billions of dollars of funding to states, localities, and service providers at risk. Fortunately, […]
Washington, DC – Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund and a founder of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund, released the following statement after Jenny Racicot, a former girlfriend of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, alleged he had sexually assaulted her: “These allegations against a powerful man are horrific, and unfortunately, show us once again why it can take years—or even decades—for […]
Washington, DC, Tuesday, May 19—Through the budget reconciliation process, Congressional leaders are pushing forward harmful funding proposals and will vote this week to potentially hand the federal government’s immigration agencies an additional $70 billion for detention and family separation—on top of the $170 billion they received last year. As advocates for children, we have seen […]
Washington, DC – A New York Times investigation revealed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotion of four Army officers—two Black men and two women—to the rank of one-star general, a continuation of his discriminatory efforts to eliminate so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives in the military. The reporting comes the same day that U.S. Reps. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) and Maggie […]
Washington, DC – Last night, 50 Senate Republicans voted against overturning a nationwide ban on abortion care and counseling at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA), which the Trump administration quietly put in place during the winter holidays. The vote was on a Congressional Review Act resolution, introduced by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Patty Murray […]
Anti-abortion centers (AACs), also known as “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) or more misleadingly as “pregnancy resource centers,” pose a serious threat to the reproductive and sexual health of people across the U.S. On the surface, an AAC presents itself as a reproductive health clinic. In reality, it is a tool of the anti-abortion movement that […]
“If the Air Force wanted you to have a family, they would have issued one.” That was the phrase that Heather King, an Air Force veteran, first heard at basic training. Like other women veterans I know, she would soon learn that the military could dictate her personal decisions—including how and when to grow her family. And […]
On February 20, 2026 the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund submitted testimony in support of Maryland’s HB 649, an education nondiscrimination bill which would strengthen protections for students and improve civil rights enforcement processes. Our testimony explains why the Maryland General Assembly should advance and enact HB 649 to ensure Maryland students at all […]