And in negotiating the settlement agreement with Notre Dame, the Trump administration illegally signed away the rights of the thousands of people covered by the university's policies without even consulting them, says the NWLC's Banker. Moreover, Notre Dame students had won the right to intervene in the lawsuit the school originally filed against the Obama administration, she said, and therefore should have been part of any settlement negotiations. "They should have been told that this was happening," she said. (Banker said the NWLC has reason to believe that the Trump administration has engaged in other, similar backroom settlements.)