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Justice Department attorneys say the shutdown is preventing them from working on pending cases, and have asked for them to be paused.

Judges have granted some stays, but denied others that California and other states have called unfair.

Days before the Trump administration was supposed to file its response to a California lawsuit challenging its targeting of gender-affirming care providers, attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to temporarily halt the proceedings.

Given the federal shutdown, they argued, they just didn’t have the lawyers to do the work.

“Department of Justice attorneys and employees of the federal defendants are prohibited from working

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