This past Monday, Public Citizen filed two more lawsuits in federal court to stop illegal actions by the Trump regime.

These are our 20th and 21st lawsuits against the administration since Trump returned to power.

LAWSUIT #20

We are suing to stop a new rule from Trump’s Department of Transportation that prohibits asylum seekers, refugees, and DACA recipients — immigrants who are here legally and who are authorized to work — from getting, renewing, or even keeping existing commercial driver’s licenses.

The rule was put in place just a few weeks ago, and is based on nothing other than the fact that these workers are immigrants. It directly threatens the livelihoods of nearly 200,000 truck drivers, bus drivers, and delivery drivers. It will also hurt countless businesses, both large and small — as well as schools and potentially millions of American consumers — that depend on these drivers.

As we’ve seen in many other instances, this rule exposes the outright racism of the Trump regime’s immigration policies. Far too many people have bought into the lie — whether coming from Donald Trump himself, henchmen like Stephen Miller, or propaganda outlets like Fox “News” — that the regime’s frenzied pursuit of immigrants is focused on undocumented or “illegal” immigrants, or on immigrants who have committed serious crimes.

But — again — this arbitrary, racist, and economically idiotic rule applies to immigrants who are here legally and are authorized to work. As Wendy Liu, Public Citizen’s lead attorney on the case, noted to the national media: “This unlawful rule seems intended to put people authorized to work in the United States out of work, solely because of the prejudices of the Trump administration.”

Public Citizen is representing two individual drivers as well as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), who are co-counsel in this case.

LAWSUIT #21

We are suing to block the Trump regime’s recent directive to a key civil rights office not to investigate an entire category of civil rights violations.

For decades, it has been settled law that when a seemingly neutral employment practice has a negative effect on one group of people more than another — because of traits like race, sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability — it is a form of discrimination. Even if an employer had no intent to discriminate, the practice may be unlawful. The legal term for this type of discrimination is “disparate impact.”

For example, if a company required applicants to be at least six feet tall for a job that could be done by someone of any height, that requirement would have a disparate impact on women, who are, on average, shorter than men.

Well, last month the Trump administration just decided “never mind all that.” Although the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is required by law to investigate all charges filed with it, the administration ordered EEOC staff to stop investigating disparate impact claims.

This is yet another instance of the Trump regime’s Orwellian, up-is-down fixation on cultural grievance. It would be absurd if it weren’t so alarming, and we have to fight it with everything we’ve got.

Public Citizen — in partnership with Public Justice, FarmSTAND, and Towards Justice — is representing a former Amazon delivery driver in this case. She filed a charge with the EEOC alleging that Amazon’s denial of bathroom breaks had a disparate impact on drivers with female anatomy. But the EEOC closed her case without investigating.

MORE ABOUT TAKING THE TRUMP REGIME TO COURT

The Trump administration is unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and unlawfully dismantling the federal government — our government — from Cabinet-level departments that have their own stately buildings here in Washington, D.C., to smaller agencies that go largely unnoticed as they do the routine, unheralded work that makes for a functioning country.

Public Citizen is doing everything we can — within our modest means — to fight back at every turn. It’s David and Goliath for sure, but we will never back down. Even where we haven’t (yet) notched definitive victories in court, we are slowing down the regime and making it work a lot harder in pursuit of its desire for absolute power.

These latest cases are just two of the 21 lawsuits we have filed (so far) against the administration since Trump returned to power. Are these lawsuits alone enough to fully defeat Trump and MAGA? Of course not. But are they a meaningful part of the pushback needed to collectively save our country? No doubt about it.

What you and Public Citizen are doing together matters. What hundreds of other organizations, big and small, are doing matters. What millions upon millions of our fellow Americans are doing matters. We believe that to our core. We take solace in that. And we draw inspiration from that. We hope you do, too.

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