#political-pressures

#political-pressures

When former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre steps onstage at a hotel ballroom near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday morning to moderate the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's LGBTQ+ Women in Leadership panel, she will preside over one of the most consequential gatherings of LGBTQ+ women in public office anywhere in the country. Jean-Pierre, who recently explained in her memoir Independent why she is no longer registered as a Democrat

The lawsuit challenges the government's unconstitutional campaign to pressure law firms and attorneys into silence. Through executive orders, blacklists, canceled contracts and inflammatory public statements, the administration has tried to turn the justice system into an instrument of partisan loyalty.