“They’re just wrong,” National Women’s Law Center Senior Director Shiwali Patel said in a phone interview. “Courts have recognized over and over again, citing to the Supreme Court, that Title IX is broad in its...
Shiwali Patel, who worked as an attorney in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama administration and resigned during Trump's first term, said she worries about the plans Republicans have for her former...
Katie O’Connor, the senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), told Jezebel the organization is “incredibly troubled” by Oz’s nomination. “This country is in the midst of a serious and...
“Donald Trump has chosen yet another unqualified, dangerous sycophant to carry out his agenda,” said Gaylynn Burroughs, vice president of education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center.
Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health for the National Women’s Law Center, said that if Republicans in Congress succeed at that, then individuals would still be able to access contraception but it...
Shiwali Patel, the National Women’s Law Center’s senior director of safe and inclusive schools, called bans on trans athletes “attempts to weaponize civil rights law to justify discrimination against an already vulnerable group of students.”...