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But scott lloyd s agency, the federal government agency he was running wouldn t let her leave the shelter to go to the doctor. that is what ultimately became a class-action lawsuit led by that pregnant teenage girl who was literally being forced to continue this pegs pregnancy against her will by the u.s. government until the aclu intervened to take her case and won it. we talked to the attorney who sued on her behalf. they were literally holding her hostage, blocking the door, preventing her from obtaining an abortion. and i believe that was their goal to hold her hostage until she carried this pregnancy to term against her will. talking about her client who had the name in court of jane doe. as that case made its way through the courts, the aclu kept turning up more janes, more girls who were being held in shelters overseen by this guy ....
She s the lawyer fighting this case in court. bridget, thank you for being here. i appreciate you validating this document and understanding what we are looking at. thanks for having me. i m right that you had not seen this document before we obtained it today? i had not. there had been reporting that the trump administration was tracking girls at this level of detail in this one agency. seeing the document to me, first of all, has a visceral effect, but it s it struck me, i had no idea it was going to be this detailed. did you know that this was the level of information the government was tracking? i had a sense it was. i asked scott lloyd at his deposition in february about what kind of reports he was getting because at that point we knew through e-mails we had obtained that he was getting weekly reports. so i had a sense that it was at least this level of detail, but you re right, seeing all of it together and all of these young women and their specific requests for abor ....
In charge of housing. that was a weird choice. also the president s personal bankruptcy lawyer was named ambassador to israel for the united states. also the president really did make an effort to try to make his personal pilot the head of the faa. so there were some weird choices right off the bat. one less high profile but equally weird choice came when president trump picked a man named scott lloyd to be the director of the office of refugee resettlement. that was a weird choice because he had never worked with refugees ever, he had never worked with resettling anyone. so the idea that he would be in charge of resettling refugees was odd. what scott lloyd had done in his life, he has been a conservative activist group. called the knights of columbus. he was an activist, anti-abortion guy. his body of public writings ....
And yell the story a little bit. this is the part to me that is actually the most shocking part of it. remember, the aclu had sued to stop scott lloyd from blocking these girls access to abortion, right? they did very well in that suit. on march 30th of last year, they won a major victory in that case, not only had the original jane doe been allowed to get the abortion that she has been seeking, on march 30th, a federal judge granted class action status to that case and ordered scott lloyd and anybody else in charge at the trump administration s office of refugee resettlement, that they needed to by court order stop interfering with or obstructing any access to a judicial bypass related to pregnancy dating, abortion counseling or any other pregnancy related clear. as of march 30th last year, the courts have stepped in and stopped this. the court, march 30th, tells scott lloyd this trump administration appointee, that ....
As a federal official, he needs to stop interfering with these girls decisions about whether or not they re going to get an abortion. march 30th was that order from the court. we called up the lawyer who had fought this case. one of the things she told us is that among the things that was most shocking about this document, which she had never previously seen, was that the dates on this spreadsheet show that scott lloyd kept tracking all the girls pregnancies and their menstrual cycles for months after that court ruling. that court ruling ordering him to stop reporting. all of these dates on the first page are from june of last year. he was supposed to stop this stuff in march, he kept doing it. and we don t know if scott lloyd continued to physically block girls from access to abortion services the way he was before the court ruling, after he was ordered not to by a federal ....