{"id":5648,"date":"2025-05-06T01:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T01:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/covington-burling-civil-rights-groups-press-forward-amid-setback-in-trump-executive-order-litigation\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T01:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T01:09:10","slug":"covington-burling-civil-rights-groups-press-forward-amid-setback-in-trump-executive-order-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/covington-burling-civil-rights-groups-press-forward-amid-setback-in-trump-executive-order-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Covington &#038; Burling, Civil Rights Groups Press Forward Amid &#8216;Setback&#8217; in Trump Executive Order Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Covington &amp; Burling and civil rights co-counsel may seek intervention from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit following a \u201csetback\u201d in their lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump\u2019s anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Lambda Legal and Covington are \u201cunlikely to prevail on either their First or Fifth Amendment claim,\u201d U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the District of Columbia wrote in a<a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2025cv0471-57\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <u>memorandum opinion filed Friday<\/u><\/a>. \u201cWith no claim likely to succeed on the merits, the Court \u2018need not proceed to review the other three preliminary injunction factors\u2019 and will deny Plaintiffs\u2019 motion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covington &amp; Burling and civil rights co-counsel may seek intervention from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit following a \u201csetback\u201d in their lawsuit challenging President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5152,2137,3328,3971,807,1130,1574,1782,408,2364,409],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-burling","tag-civil","tag-covington","tag-executive","tag-groups","tag-litigation","tag-order","tag-press","tag-rights","tag-setback","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}