Month: August 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, America First Legal (AFL) filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court in a case involving the City of Austin’s provision of taxpayer funds to organizations that aid and abet abortions. The Texas Constitution prohibits cities from enacting ordinances that “contain any provision inconsistent with the general laws enacted […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, America First Legal sued the Biden Administration on behalf of a class of doctors, seeking to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from forcing medical professionals to provide unethical transgender-related medical services.  Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits “sex” discrimination in any health program or activity […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department seeking an order requiring the Biden Administration to turn over records explaining President Biden’s order to stop an independent investigation into the origins of the COVID pandemic.  In May, AFL filed a FOIA with the State Department seeking government […]

Decision marks a decisive blow against the Biden Administration’s lawless actions WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight, the Supreme Court of the United States denied the Biden Administration’s request for a stay of a lower court decision that effectively requires the “good faith” implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). MPP was a program employed during the […]

Former Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, Files Declaration in Case WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the State of Texas filed an amended complaint against the Biden Administration for its refusal to follow its own rules to prevent the introduction of aliens infected with COVID-19 into the United States. America First Legal serves as […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), requesting all records and communications between all current Voting Section attorneys and outside organizations, as well as records that will likely reveal a partisan bias in hiring within the Voting Section of […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal (AFL) took a stand for the Second Amendment and against the Biden Administration’s radical attempt to undermine the rule of law.    To advance its radical, anti-Constitutional agenda, the Biden Administration has proposed vague and complex new regulations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas preliminarily enjoined the Biden Administration’s radical anti-immigration enforcement memoranda issued in the early weeks of the Biden Administration. Texas and Louisiana challenged the memoranda as being contrary to law, and the Court agreed, finding that the policies […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for illegally withholding records demonstrating the Biden Administration’s utter decimation of immigration enforcement.  In May, AFL filed a Freedom of Information Act request for ICE’s weekly enforcement reports following the publication of Departmental memos […]

AFL asks Biden Administration to produce all legally required documents to the public and end its coverup of important information WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal filed a request for all records from the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (the “Commission”), a Federal Advisory Committee subject to the Federal […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal asked the U.S. State Department Inspector General to investigate the Biden Administration’s alleged cover up of official Palestinian support for terrorism.   Under the PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989, Title VIII of Public Law 101-246, as amended, the President, acting through the Secretary of State, is required to […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal Foundation filed an Amicus Brief in the case of College of the Ozarks v. Biden, et al.  AFL’s brief, filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, calls on the court to protect religious liberty and the rule of law by striking down a […]

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, America First Legal filed Freedom of Information Act Requests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (“HHS-ACF”) requesting all communications and records relating to why a non-profit with ties to the Obama and Biden administrations — Family Endeavors, Inc. — received two […]

Washington, D.C. — Today, America First Legal filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) at the U.S. Department of State requesting all records relating to its invitation to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism to investigate “systemic racism” in law enforcement in the United States. The individual United States Secretary […]