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200+ House Democrats File Amicus Brief Against Unconstitutional Trump Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
April 11, 2025
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Today, House Democrats continued their efforts to push back against President Donald Trump’s unlawful executive directives by filing an amicus brief in defense of the essential constitutional principle of birthright citizenship in the matter of State of Washington, et al. v. Trump, et al.
Congressional Democrats Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks on Independent Worker Protection Agencies
April 9, 2025
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Today, House and Senate Democratic Leadership filed an amicus brief opposing President Donald Trump’s unlawful attempts to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).
Task Force Chair Champions Effort to Reinstate and Ensure Back Pay for Illegally Terminated Federal Workers
April 8, 2025
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Assistant Democratic Leader Joe Neguse, Chair of the Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force, issued the following statement in support of Task Force member Rep. LaMonica McIver’s effort to reinstate federal employees who were unjustly fired by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s “DOGE” initiative which enacted mass terminations at critical agencies.
House Democrats Defend Congress’s Article I Powers, Slam Unlawful and Dangerous Shuttering of USAID
March 31, 2025
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Washington, D.C. — Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Gregory Meeks, and the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee for National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs, Rep.
House Leaders Cheer Successful Effort to Defend American Consumers and the CFPB in Court
March 28, 2025
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Washington, D.C. — Today, House Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02) and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Leaders of the Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force, along with Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters (CA-43), issued the following statement after a federal judge blocked efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): 

Task Force Fights Back Against Attacks on CFPB and Moves to Defend American Consumers in Court
February 28, 2025
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Washington, D.C. — Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters (CA-43) in conjunction with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Assistant Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and the Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force, led an amicus brief joined by 203 House Democrats in defense of American consumers and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the matter of National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), et al. v.

Task Force Chair and Budget Committee Democrats Quickly Convene to Slam House Republicans’ Budget Betrayal
February 12, 2025
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Washington, D.C. — In the immediate aftermath of House Republican Leadership releasing their budget resolution, House Assistant Democratic Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02), who chairs the Litigation Working Group and Rapid Response Task Force, convened a press conference with Ranking Member Brendan Boyle and a group of Budget Committee Democrats slamming the proposal. 

Task Force Responds to Damaging Executive Orders from Trump White House
February 10, 2025
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Washington, D.C. — In response to the litany of unlawful and unconstitutional directives issued by the Trump Administration, the recently formed Litigation Working Group and Rapid Response Task Force moved to respond to these actions in the Congress, introducing both the Data Taxpayer Protection Act and the Department of Education Protection Act.