RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

A nationwide coalition of domestic violence, sexual assault, housing, youth, and homelessness organizations filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s sweeping and unlawful conditions placed on federal grant funding from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These new funding restrictions target diversity, equity, inclusion, and transgender rights, putting life-saving services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, LGBTQI+ youth, and unhoused communities at risk.

A complete list of the numerous state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions participating as plaintiffs in the case and the attorneys and partner organizations can be found here (also linked as a PDF below.)