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Lynn Durbin: Access to family planning services

April 5, 2019 Comments Off on Lynn Durbin: Access to family planning services

Planned Parenthood on Howard Street in Baltimore. (File)

Our country’s most prestigious medical experts, representing more than 4 million health care providers, have voiced serious concerns over a recently published Trump administration Title X regulation that if implemented would put women at-risk of receiving inferior medical care by lifting ...

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Trump administration moves to dismiss Baltimore’s ACA lawsuit

December 26, 2018 Comments Off on Trump administration moves to dismiss Baltimore’s ACA lawsuit

The HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Numbers released this week by the government show just a slight dip in people enrolled for Affordable Care Act coverage next year through HealthCare.gov. That’s the case even though the Republican-led Congress repealed fines for being uninsured effective Jan. 1. The drop _ from 8.8 million to 8.5 million _ was far less than experts forecast. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Trump administration filed a motion Monday seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of cities, including Baltimore, critical of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Baltimore, Columbus, Cincinnati and Chicago filed suit in August alleging ...

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Fury over reported federal plan targeting transgender people

October 22, 2018 Comments Off on Fury over reported federal plan targeting transgender people

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2018, file photo, Roger Severino, director of the Office for Civil Rights, is interviewed at the office of Health and Human Services in Washington. LGBT leaders across the U.S. reacted with fury on Oct. 22, to a report that the Trump administration is considering adoption of a new definition of gender that would effectively deny federal recognition and civil rights protections to transgender Americans. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

LGBT leaders across the U.S. reacted with fury Monday to a report that the Trump administration is considering adoption of a new definition of gender that would effectively deny federal recognition and civil rights protections to transgender Americans.

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Frosh goes on the offensive with Md. Defense Act

October 21, 2018 Comments Off on Frosh goes on the offensive with Md. Defense Act

‘It was pretty obvious … that Maryland’s interests were affected by what was going on in D.C. — and affected adversely,’ Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh says in defending his use of the Maryland Defense Act of 2017 to bring lawsuits against the Trump administration unilaterally. (Photo illustration by Laura Black)

Since March of 2017, the attorney general has unilaterally joined a lawsuit against the federal government more than 20 times thanks to a new state law.

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Trump wants federal suit against opioid manufacturers

August 16, 2018 Comments Off on Trump wants federal suit against opioid manufacturers

President Donald Trump is asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file a federal lawsuit against certain companies that supply and manufacture opioids.

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Letter to the editor: 100 percent against Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance policy’

July 12, 2018 Comments Off on Letter to the editor: 100 percent against Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance policy’

In this June 21, 2018, photo, migrant children walk off a bus at the Catholic Charities' Msgr. Bryan Walsh Children's Village in Cutler Bay, Fla. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Monday, June 25, that children who range in age from newborns to 5 years old are being sheltered at this facility and His House Children's Home in Miami Gardens. (Photo/Brynn Anderson)

As an organization whose purpose is to provide a voice to legal issues affecting the Hispanic community, the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association will not stand silent while families are being torn apart.

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Baker decision won’t be justices’ last word on LGBT rights

June 1, 2018 Comments Off on Baker decision won’t be justices’ last word on LGBT rights

This Feb. 17, 2016, file photo shows the Supreme Court building in Washington.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

A flood of lawsuits over LGBT rights is making its way through courts and will continue, no matter the outcome in the Supreme Court's highly anticipated decision in the case of a Colorado baker who would not create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

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Blue state AGs fight for their jobs while fending off Trump

May 17, 2018 Comments Off on Blue state AGs fight for their jobs while fending off Trump

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra answers questions during a news conference at St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles on Thursday May 18, 2017. Democrats in California, New York and other states are trying to intervene in a federal lawsuit that threatens to undercut funding for the Affordable Care Act. Becerra said that the states want to step into the case in federal court in Washington to protect care for millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

While the most prominent of Trump's critics, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, resigned a week ago after being accused of assaulting four women, there's no shortage of attorneys general willing to fill any gap.

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Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate

October 6, 2017 Comments Off on Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Trump signed an executive order that will direct the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, which reshaped financial regulation after 2008-2009 crisis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Trump administration issued a rule Friday that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access to birth control free of charge. The new regulation, issued ...

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