The Justice Department is going to bat for a group of Catholic nuns who have spent more than a century caring for dying cancer patients for free. President Trump’s DOJ notified a federal court that it intends to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne against the state of New York. At issue is a New York law that DOJ says forces Catholic nursing facilities to house biological men with women. The Sisters run a residential hospice care program, and the state is telling them how to assign rooms. DOJ sues New York for forcing Catholic nursing facilities to house men with women https://t.co/ZR872oCC98 — John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) June 19, 2026 The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients in their final days for over 100 years. These are women who take in the poorest of the poor at the end of life, and New York decided that was the right moment to pick a fight over gender ideology. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the lawsuit challenges a New York law requiring the Sisters to house biological men with women in their residential hospice program. DOJ says it intends to intervene and supports the Sisters’ argument that the law violates equal protection for religious groups. The department points to a clear double standard in the law itself. New York lets secular clinical objections excuse a facility from opposite-sex room assignments, but it offers no equivalent accommodation for religious objections. DOJ says the law requires long-term care facilities to assign rooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex, while also requiring staff to use names and pronouns that reflect gender identity. The federal argument is that New York gives secular judgments legal protection while refusing to give the same protection to religious judgment. The Justice Department said it intends to intervene in a lawsuit filed by an order of Catholic nuns fighting a New York law requiring nursing homes to house biological males who identify as female with women. https://t.co/kf1ofTJEft — The Washington Times (@WashTimes) June 19, 2026 In other words, a doctor’s clinical concern counts, but a Catholic nun’s faith does not. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon put it bluntly, saying states cannot require Americans to abandon their religious beliefs in the name of woke gender ideology. That is the heart of the case. The state is not asking the Sisters to bend a little. It is asking them to surrender the convictions that built their ministry in the first place. The Acting Attorney General certified the case as an equal-protection matter of general public importance under 42 U.S.C. 2000h-2, the federal statute that lets the United States step into a civil rights case of broad consequence. That certification signals the DOJ sees this as bigger than one hospice in New York. Justice Department Sues State of New York for Requiring Catholic Nursing Facilities to House Men with Women #NewYork, #genderideology, #Catholic https://t.co/HgTwRdLjQi — Crwe World (@CrweWorld) June 20, 2026 If a state can dictate how Catholic caregivers run their own residences, the precedent reaches every faith-based institution that dares to operate by its beliefs. For decades, religious groups warned that gender ideology would eventually collide with their right to live out their faith. New York just proved them right by aiming the law at nuns who care for the dying. The Sisters are not standing alone anymore. President Trump’s Justice Department is now in their corner. What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE The post President Trump’s DOJ Steps In After New York Targets Catholic Nuns Over Housing Men With Women appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.