Position Description: The NLG Director of Education and Organizing is a full-time staff member in the NLG National Office (NLG NO). In collaboration with other NO staff, the Director of Education and Organizing is responsible for developing materials aimed at increasing membership engagement, public visibility, and political education. This position is the main contact for […]
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NLG Urges Washington State Supreme Court to Do Right by Bar Exam Takers
August 1, 2026 via email The Honorable Chief Justice Debra L. StephensWashington State Supreme Court415 12th Avenue SWOlympia, WA 98504President Francis Adewale and Executive Director Terra NevittWashington State Bar Association1325 Fourth Avenue, Suite 600Seattle, WA 98101 RE: Diploma privilege for July 2026 bar applicants Dear Madam Chief Justice Stephens, President Adewale, and Director Nevitt:The undersigned […]
NLG and It’s Prison Abolition Committee Are in Solidarity With Jailhouse Lawyers Speaks Call for a Nationwide Prison Strike
Commemorating this first week of Black August, the Prison Abolition Committee (PAC) of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) stands in solidarity with the National Prisoners’ Human Rights Strike, the imprisoned organizers leading this call to action, and all those resisting carceral violence in this age of acute repression and the rising number of political prisoners. We stand with imprisoned […]
The National Lawyers Guild Reaffirms its Solidarity with Cuba in the Face of Increasing McCarthyite Repression
On July 20, 2026, the State Department released a 100-page McCarthyite propaganda report bearing the name of Secretary of State Marco Rubio—a document that endeavours to serve as the ideological justification for an escalating assault on Cuba, the Cuba solidarity movement, and all political dissent on the left. The report casts a wide net of […]
NLG Calls for Overturn of Spokane 3’s Verdict, 1 Year after Neighbors Linked Arms against Illegal ICE Kidnapping
On June 11, 2025, ICE agents conducted an illegal kidnapping of two young asylum-seekers in Spokane, Washington. Neighbors, including a former City Council President, linked arms outside the ICE field office, in an act of civil disobedience against the illegal detention of the two immigrants. Hundreds of community members then autonomously showed up in solidarity […]
NLG Calls for Support to Delaney Hall Immigrant Hunger Strikers and Anti-ICE Protesters
The National Lawyers Guild calls for support to the hunger strike led by 300 detained immigrants inside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center, in Newark, New Jersey. The GEO Group-run detention center is accused of inhumane conditions, abuse, and lack of oversight into the treatment of the people inside their detention centers. Immigrant detention center […]
Statement Condemning OFAC Designation of Four Palestine Solidarity Organizers
The National Lawyers Guild condemns in the strongest possible terms the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designation of four Palestinian and international organizers—Saif Abu Keshek, Mohammed Khatib, Jaldia Abubakra, and Hisham Abu Mahfouz—as being affiliated with or providing support to designated “foreign terrorist organizations” for their solidarity with Palestinian national liberation […]
Comment in Opposition, RIN 1105–AB80, Certification Process for State Capital Counsel Systems, 91 Fed. Reg. 12525 (Mar. 16, 2026), Docket (DOJ-OAG-2026-0034)
The National Lawyers Guild (“NLG”) submits this comment in strong opposition to the Department of Justice’s proposed rule amending 28 CFR Part 26 (“Proposed Rule”). The NLG is the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association, and our members across the country regularly represent individuals fighting capital punishment. Hence, the Proposed Rule directly affects our […]
NLG Denounces SCOTUS’s Ruling Eviscerating the Voting Rights Act
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns in the strongest terms the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. This decision represents a mortal wounding of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Section 2 of the Act served as a bulwark against racist electoral districting and as a remedy for the dilution of Black and […]
NLG Stands in Solidarity with SPLC Against Baseless Attacks by a Weaponized Department of Justice
Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has lodged an attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) by indicting the organization for alleged wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. This is a clear signal to fascist organizations that they are safe and can continue their racist attacks against communities that they marginalize. […]
