The New York City Bar Association on Wednesday condemned the U.S. Justice Department for its felony indictment of Lambda Legal attorney Carl Charles.

In the felony indictment, the Justice Department accuses Charles, a transgender lawyer based in Atlanta, of making a “false material declaration” during a judicial inquiry.

The inquiry was initiated by three Alabama district court judges in 2022, who believed that Charles, along with other attorneys, had engaged in “judge shopping” to get a more favorable outcome in the case challenging Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. During the inquiry, U.S. District Judge Liles Burke found that Charles was “intentionally dishonest” when he initially denied calling the chambers of another judge — the judge to whom the case cha

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