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    Driver Challenges Medical Transportation Management’s (MTM) Unlawful Background Check Policy
    DRM Wins Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging State’s Practice of Indefinitely Detaining Criminal Defendants with Disabilities
    Washington Lawyers’ Committee Statement Regarding Illegal Immigration Arrests in DC
    U.S. District Judge ordered a halt to the Trump administration’s unlawful deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C.
    Federal Judge Finds That Forcing High School Students to Convey Confederate School Names Violates Their Constitutional Rights
    A Rotten Foundation: Wage Theft in the District of Columbia’s Affordable Housing Construction
    Executive Director’s Statement on Deployment of the National Guard to DC and Federal Takeover of MPD
    AAJC, WLC, and OCA Condemn SCOTUS Decision to Limit Courts’ Ability to Address Administration’s Unlawful Executive Orders, Including Attacks to Birthright Citizenship
    Committee Testifies Before D.C. Committee of the Whole on D.C. Council’s Access to Justice Initiative
    Committee Testifies on DC Council’s Access to Justice Initiative
    “You must find a way to get in the way and make good trouble.”
    Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Representative and Civil Rights Leader

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