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Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin Stands with Transgender Military Members in Challenge to President Trump’s Discriminatory Executive Order

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New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today joined a coalition of 20 state attorneys general in filing a “friend of the court” brief, or amicus brief, to support a lawsuit challenging the implementation of President Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.