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NWLC Action Fund Issues Warning About Protect College Sports Act
Read the story: NWLC Action Fund Issues Warning About Protect College Sports ActWASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate will soon vote on the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 (PCSA), legislation that the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund (NWLCAF) warns does not go far enough to protect against sex discrimination. PCSA is a bipartisan bill that, in part, establishes a national framework around Name, Image and Likeness…
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NWLCAF Urges Senators to Oppose the Protect College Sports Act of 2026
Read the story: NWLCAF Urges Senators to Oppose the Protect College Sports Act of 2026NWLCAF has deep concerns that the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 does not acknowledge Title IX’s application to compensation for student athletes, which most likely will lead to confusion, violation of the law, and harm to women athletes. Read our letter to Senators below or by clicking here.
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The United States Needs Our Service Women in Combat Arms: Congress Should Support the WARRIOR Act
Read the story: The United States Needs Our Service Women in Combat Arms: Congress Should Support the WARRIOR ActNWLC 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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NWLC Action Fund Blasts 3rd Circuit Decision in McIver Case
Read the story: NWLC Action Fund Blasts 3rd Circuit Decision in McIver CaseWashington, 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…
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NWLCAF Brief Calling on Congress to Close the Loophole that Prevents Courts from Addressing Illegal Terminations of Grants
Read the brief: NWLCAF Brief Calling on Congress to Close the Loophole that Prevents Courts from Addressing Illegal Terminations of GrantsIn 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,…
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Fatima Goss Graves on Survivor Allegations Against ME Senate Candidate Graham Platner
Read the statement: Fatima Goss Graves on Survivor Allegations Against ME Senate Candidate Graham PlatnerWashington, 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…
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NWLC Action Fund submits support for Rhode Island package of reforms
Read the story: NWLC Action Fund submits support for Rhode Island package of reformsIn May 2026, The National Women’s Law Center Action Fund (NWLCAF) submitted testimony to Members of the Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee. NWLCAF wrote to express strong support for the package of reforms contained in Senate Bills 2938, 2939, and 2947. Taken together, the bills would bring new transparency into Rhode Island’s judicial selection process,…
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Children’s Advocates to Congress: Additional Funding for DHS is a Cruel Misuse of Public Funding and a Direct Attack on Children and Families
Read the story: Children’s Advocates to Congress: Additional Funding for DHS is a Cruel Misuse of Public Funding and a Direct Attack on Children and FamiliesWashington, 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…
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NWLC Action Fund Statement on Hegseth Blocking Promotions of Black and Women Military Leaders
Read the statement: NWLC Action Fund Statement on Hegseth Blocking Promotions of Black and Women Military LeadersWashington, 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…
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NWLC Action Fund Slams Senate Republicans for Refusing to Block Trump’s Nationwide Abortion Ban for Veterans
Read the statement: NWLC Action Fund Slams Senate Republicans for Refusing to Block Trump’s Nationwide Abortion Ban for VeteransWashington, 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…
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NWLCAF Releases Primer on Anti-Abortion Centers for State Lawmakers
Read the story: NWLCAF Releases Primer on Anti-Abortion Centers for State LawmakersAnti-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…
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Stories From the Front: How VA’s Abortion Ban Harms Veterans
Read the story: Stories From the Front: How VA’s Abortion Ban Harms Veterans“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…
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NWLC Action Fund: Testimony in Support of Maryland Education Nondiscrimination Law
Read the testimony: NWLC Action Fund: Testimony in Support of Maryland Education Nondiscrimination LawOn 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…
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