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Apr 6, 2021

Federal Court Rules Idaho’s “Pregnancy Exclusion” For Living Wills Is Unconstitutional

In a victory for pregnant people’s civil rights, a federal court in Boise held that Idaho law cannot require people capable of pregnancy...

Mar 31, 2021

Transgender Day of Visibility 2021

To all of our trans siblings—We see you. We honor you. We love you. We celebrate your resilience, we celebrate your accomplishments, we...

Mar 18, 2021

Stop AAPI Hate by Abolishing White Supremacy

Tuesday night’s devastating mass shooting of eight innocent people, six of whom were Asian women, is heartbreaking for the victims’...

Mar 17, 2021

Statement Condemning Silencing of Dissenting Opinions on Hearing for Senate Bill 1183

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Statement Condemning Silence of Dissenting Opinions on Hearing for Senate Bill 1183...

Mar 5, 2021

Court Says: Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission Cannot Claim Ministerial Exemptions for All Employees

QLaw Foundation’s Executive Director Denise Diskin, and co-counsel Legal Voice and Seattle Employment Law Partners, PLLC win case on...

Mar 2, 2021

Thoughts at the Onset of Women's History Month

Today marks the beginning of Women’s History Month. And though we want to be joyous, we can’t help but reflect on the words shared from...

Feb 15, 2021

Opposing Idaho's SB1085: The 6 Week Abortion Ban

Today, the Senate State Affairs Committee heard Senate Bill 1085, a bill that would essentially ban abortions in Idaho. The Committee...

Feb 6, 2021

Improving Benefits for Domestic Workers

Domestic workers like nannies, home care workers, and housecleaners continue to work under dire economic conditions that have been...

Jan 29, 2021

Women and White Nationalism

We need to talk about the role of white women in the insurrection on January 6th. The mainstream media and our society in general do not...

Jan 20, 2021

Action Alert: Show Support for PPPA and Postpartum Medicaid Expansion

On Wednesday, January 20th, the Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee will be hearing public testimony on two bills that Legal Voice...

Jan 19, 2021

A message on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2021. A year that is already giving 2020 a run for its money. We’ve been saying that things can’t...

Jan 13, 2021

Defer the Idaho Legislative Session or Ensure Equitable and Safe Access

On Monday, we partnered with the ACLU of Idaho, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawai'i, the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and...

Dec 23, 2020

Update: Hecox v. Little

On December 21, 2020, amicus briefs were filed in support of Lindsay Hecox and Jane Doe who are suing the state of Idaho and Governor...

Nov 25, 2020

In 2020, Let's Decolonize Thanksgiving

There are 36 days left in 2020…not like we are counting or anything. 2020 has been one for the history books—a pandemic unlike any we...

Nov 20, 2020

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Today, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance, we say the names of the 37 persons whose lives were taken too early, who experienced...

Nov 17, 2020

Apply for the Washington Immigrant Relief Fund Today

The Washington Immigrant Relief Fund is up and running! Legal Voice has been an active member of the coalition that has stood up this...

Nov 11, 2020

Referendum 90 Approved by Washington Voters

Along with everything else that was taking place across the state of Washington this year, you may have voted on Referendum 90 in which...

Jul 27, 2020

Changes Ahead: Letter from Our Executive Director

The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax ... My mother used to say this when she...

Jul 23, 2020

Idaho Trans Athlete Lawsuit Update

(Our plaintiff Lindsay Hecox and supporters outside the courthouse hearing arguments about Idaho's anti-trans law.) While the pandemic...

Jul 2, 2020

Introducing Our Race Equity Values

In early February, Legal Voice’s entire staff set aside our work and walked to a nearby Seattle conference space for a day-long race...