Zenab Youssef
Celebrating Two Years of the IRA: Our ...

As we commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) today, August 16, there is much to celebrate about this historic legislation. The IRA represents the largest-ever climate investment in our country’s history, creating unprecedented opportunities for clean energy savings.

However, we at L4GG are acutely aware that historically marginalized communities often lack the resources to access the IRA’s historic funding opportunities. In response, we have intensified our efforts over the past two years to ensure that the benefits of the IRA reach those who need them most. See what we’ve been up to!

Celebrating Two Years of the IRA: Our Achievements and Impact
Zenab Youssef
A Law Student's Journey at the Border with ...
A Law Student's Journey at the Border with Project Corazon
L4GG Updates
Zenab Youssef
We Won’t Sit Silently in the Face of ...

Not enough people are talking about the water crisis in Jackson, MS. On Tuesday, the Mississippi governor declared a state of emergency for Jackson’s water system, the city’s largest treatment plant. Most of the city’s 150,000 residents are without running water, having to rely on bottled water for drinking, showering, brushing their teeth, and cooking.

We Won’t Sit Silently in the Face of Environmental Racism - Neither Should You
L4GG Updates
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What can YOU do to fight for abortion access ...
L4GG Updates
Sterling Howard
L4GG Publishes Joint Report with New Georgia ...

Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG), the nation’s largest community of attorneys committed to human rights and equal justice for all, and New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit voting rights and civic engagement organization in Georgia, today released a report on ‘ballot selfies’, or the practice of taking photos of oneself at the ballot box and/or with their ballots.

A ballot selfie is when a person takes a photo of themselves holding their marked ballot and usually uploads the photo to a social media account to show friends that they voted, and for whom they voted. Ballot selfies are a great way to promote voting and engage with one’s community, yet many states have laws that prohibit them. Advocacy organizations are concerned that laws prohibiting ballot selfies are tools of voter suppression, and another way to criminalize ordinary behavior.

Click here to download “Selfie-Defense Training: Understanding and Reforming Laws that Ban Photographing and Sharing Your Ballot”

The report found that ballot selfies are completely legal in 28 states, and illegal in 13 states. Five states have laws prohibiting ballot selfies at polling locations, but not when casting a mail-in or absentee ballot. Six states have laws governing ballot selfies that are unclear. The report calls for states to update their laws to explicitly allow voters the right to take a ballot selfie, and prevent voter fraud and bribery without curtailing free speech.

L4GG Publishes Joint Report with New Georgia Project on Ballot Selfies

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4.3.25 EMERGENCY WEBINAR - RECORDING AND ACTION ITEMS

We were thrilled to have 1600+ attorneys register for yesterday’s webinar on the unprecedented attacks facing our legal profession and democracy. We had 800+ people attend live, demonstrating that members of the legal community understand the gravity of this moment and are ready to take action.

We are witnessing what may be the most concerted effort to undermine the legal profession since the McCarthy era. The administration's targeted executive orders against law firms, investigations into diversity policies, attacks on judicial independence, and defiance of court orders represent a direct threat to our constitutional system.

The window for effective action is narrow, and it is now.

Four Concrete Actions You Can Take Today

Our collective power as legal professionals is immense, but only if we choose to exercise it. Here are four specific ways you can help defend our profession and democracy:

1. Participate in Law Day Actions on May 1, 2025

Express your interest in participating in or helping organize a rally at a federal courthouse in your city on May 1, 2025. Express your interest at L4GG.org/LawDay.

2. Join Our Movement with a Monthly Commitment

Make a sustaining contribution of $25 or more per month to the L4GG Action Fund (our 501c4 organization) at L4GG.org/JoinTheMovement. Your ongoing support will help us build the infrastructure needed for both immediate crisis response and long-term democratic renewal.

3. Subscribe to the Impact Docket

Receive bi-weekly concrete action items tailored for busy attorneys at L4GG.org/ImpactDocket. Whether you have 2 minutes or 2 hours, we'll provide meaningful ways for you to make your voice heard.

4. Spread the Word

Please share this email with at least 5 colleagues who care about defending our democracy. Additional ways to stay connected:

As emphasized during our webinar, the only thing necessary for the triumph of authoritarianism is for principled lawyers to do nothing. What each of us chooses to do – or not do – in this moment will define not just our professional legacy but the future of American democracy itself.

Thank you for your commitment to upholding your oath to defend the Constitution. Together, we can make a difference.

L4GG Calls on Congress to Enact an Independent Commission on 1/6 Insurrection

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has announced that he’s opposed to creating a Congressional commission to examine and report the facts and causes relating to the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol.

In advance of the vote in the House of Representatives to advance legislation to create an independent commission, L4GG is calling on Congress to step up and enact the commission.

We’ve created a sign on letter and are asking our community of lawyers and activists to join.

What happened on January 6th was an attack on our democracy and threatens future peaceful transfers of power in our country. We must take this threat seriously.

Every day that our leaders in Congress delay enacting a commission is another day that a substantial portion of the electorate - and even a portion of Congress - denies the truth of what happened that day. 

We need Congress to step up and enact the commission. This is bigger than party - this is the future of our country. 

Sign our Letter now. 

Urge Congress to enact a commission.

Tell them that our nation cannot heal without accountability and that we cannot silence those who would speak the truth. 

Join us.

In solidarity,

Traci

Traci Feit Love
President & Executive Director
Lawyers for Good Government