About GIJustice
Protected class in the statutes. Second-class in the streets.
I'm brother logan, HoSM; combat veteran (OIF), professed Hospitaller of St Martin, and for the last several years, a plaintiff in several civil rights cases.
GIJustice is where I keep the record.
In 2009, Congress passed what's known as the Soldiers Amendment — §4712 of Pub. L. 111-84, codified at 18 U.S.C. §1389 — putting servicemembers and their families "on equal footing with other protected classes." Sen. Sessions introduced it. It passed unanimously. Sen. Wyden's office has confirmed as much, on the record.
On paper, a military family harassed for who they are has the same statutory standing as any other protected class in this country.
On paper.
The problem was never the statute. The problem is that nobody at the Department of Justice enforces it — no developed case law, no consent decrees, no pattern of prosecutions, because there's no pattern of anyone at DOJ answering the phone. Post-Loper Bright, when what controls is what Congress actually intended rather than an agency's convenient non-reading of its own mandate, that silence stops being bureaucratic inertia and starts looking like the civil rights violation itself.
I didn't set out to test that theory in federal court. But when your own case becomes the only available data point on whether a protection on the books means anything without someone willing to enforce it, you document it, and you file.
What's active right now
- Isaac v. Manning (D. Or., No. 6:25-cv-01159-MC) — filed July 2025 against Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis, Renee Perry, James Manning, and Doe defendants. Surviving claims are First Amendment retaliation against Davis and Perry.
- Isaac v. DOJ (D. Or., No. 6:26-cv-00832-MTK) — a FOIA suit aimed directly at the enforcement gap in §1389: if DOJ won't enforce the statute, the public is entitled to see why not.
- Isaac v. OSU (Benton County, No. 26-CV-23791) — a public records action for bodycam footage from an incident at a campus veterans center.
What you'll find on this site is the underlying material as it's generated — motions, correspondence, docket entries — not a curated highlight reel. I post the emails where opposing counsel says something worth reading in full, and the ones where I do too. I may not be proud of everything you see, but all of it felt necessary in light of the lack of human dignity for military families, and what that drives people to.
Who this is for
Reporters trying to source the legal theory instead of taking my word for it. Attorneys and advocates working the same enforcement gap from other angles. Other veterans who've hit the same wall and want to know they're not imagining it. Anyone deciding whether "protected class" is a real legal status or a phrase Congress uses to sound like it did something.
Get in touch
DMs are open, direct all inquiries to logan at pewpewhq.com. GIJustice is the public documentation project of the Military Improvement Association.