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Earlier tonight I asked @AGOWA whether anyone actually reviewed this firm's litigation history before hiring them to defend I-638. Here's what that history shows. h/t @engele for digging into this. In 2023, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner went into Missouri as pro bono co-counsel with Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Missouri in Southampton Community Healthcare v. Bailey. They won a temporary restraining order blocking AG Andrew Bailey's emergency rule on so-called "gender-affirming care." BCLP's own write-up calls it a pro bono team. Bailey later terminated the rule. In 2019, the same firm, again pro bono with Lambda Legal, won a consent judgment in Foster v. Andersen requiring Kansas to issue birth certificates that match a person's "gender identity." BCLP touted that win in its own 2019 pro bono report, and was still co-counsel in 2023 when Kansas moved to undo it. Family Equality Council isn't a random client. BCLP's own 2014 pro bono report calls it the firm's "signature pro bono client." BCLP wrote the "Voices of Children" Supreme Court amicus brief in the 2013 marriage cases, and in 2020 filed another for Family Equality in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, siding with the city against a Catholic foster agency. In 2015, Bryan Cave and LeGaL, the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, produced the National Center for Transgender Equality's Name and Gender Change Guide for New Jersey Residents, a how-to for changing sex markers on government IDs. This firm also scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index 15 years straight through 2022, by its own announcement, and is back at 100 on HRC's latest listing. I looked for a single prior case where this firm defended a girls'-sports law or any policy keeping males out of girls' competition. I couldn't find one in the public record. I-638, which Washington voters passed 56-44, looks like their first time on this side of the table. So, @AGOWA: will you release the contract and what taxpayers are paying per hour? And do you really expect a firm with this pro bono résumé to fight for I-638 like it means it? I'm the dad of two teenage girls who play sports. I'll be reading every filing.