Month: October 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, America First Legal opened a Freedom of Information Act investigation of the U.S. State Department’s Palestinian Affairs Unit’s activities in Israel’s capital city Jerusalem, the “West Bank”, and Gaza.  On a bipartisan basis, Congress has passed multiple laws prohibiting the Biden Administration from using U.S. taxpayer dollars to directly benefit […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) to compel the immediate release of all records explaining why the Biden Administration dropped serious charges against two New York attorneys who firebombed a police van and bragged about injuring police officers. On May 30, 2020, Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In June, America First Legal (AFL) formally requested that the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) investigate whether White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, violated the Hatch Act when he retweeted a StrikePAC tweet using his “@WHCOS” account that read “Get your ‘Democrats Deliver’ merch today,” and included a link to the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) partnered with the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) in a lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for unlawfully enforcing the Gun Control Act of 1968 and revoking federal firearm licenses from firearm dealers across America over “paperwork errors.” Jointly, AFL and TPPF […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, America First Legal (AFL) and its co-counsel, Wally Zimolong, reached a victorious resolution in a lawsuit against the Chester County Pennsylvania Board of Elections and its Board Members regarding the county’s patently illegal use of insecure ballot drop boxes. As a direct result of AFL’s suit, Chester County has agreed […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as part of its initiative under the Center for Legal Equality, America First Legal (AFL) asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open a civil rights investigation into Starbucks for violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. AFL also wrote to Starbucks’ Chair, Mellody Hobson, and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal (AFL) has obtained an internal State Department memorandum exposing the Biden Administration’s radical plan to centralize power, reshape the economy, and devastate America’s middle class, in the name of climate change. The memorandum, dated October 1, was apparently sent to every U.S. diplomatic post worldwide in advance of the […]

A school district in Wisconsin was sued on Wednesday over its gender identity training which allows teachers and school staff to hide student gender transitions from parents. America First Legal (AFL) and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed the lawsuit on behalf of a group of parents against the Eau Claire Area School District (ECASD), along with its […]

America First Legal has filed a lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration for what it says is the agency’s failure to promptly release Joe Biden’s official vice presidential records related to communications with son Hunter and other materials that the pro-Trump group believes will provide additional information on the Biden family’s “corrupt foreign […]

Conservative organization America First Legal is vowing to “strenuously” fight the Biden administration’s decision to decrease obstacles for illegal migrants to obtain welfare, former Trump advisor Stephen Miller exclusively told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday. “Biden’s lawless rule flips that on its head and says: if you want a lifetime of free welfare come […]

America First Legal and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit on behalf of parental rights organization Parents Protecting Our Children in order to “vindicate parents’ sacred and fundamental right to care for and raise their children.” The training tells teachers that “parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities. That knowledge must be earned” […]

In the wake of the 2020 protests and riots over George Floyd’s killing, leaders at DICK’s Sporting Goods engaged in a series of “conversations around race” that led to two new diversity goals. … As part of its “Commitment to Diversity,” Amazon recently launched a program offering $10,000 grants to “Black, Latinx, and Native American […]

A conservative legal group is suing the board of elections in Pennsylvania’s Chester County, citing surveillance camera footage that captured the illegal use of ballot drop boxes. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by America First Legal (AFL) on behalf of registered voters in Chester County. The group, founded by longtime Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, said […]

Richard Lowery, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has sued the Texas A&M University System over what he says are discriminatory hiring policies for faculty. The class-action complaint was filed in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas by America First Legal (AFL) — a nonprofit group founded by Stephen Miller, a […]

A University of Texas at Austin professor has sued Texas A&M University, claiming a new faculty fellowship program designed to increase diversity at the university discriminates against white and Asian male candidates, The Texas Tribunereported. Richard Lowery, a finance professor at UT Austin, who is white, filed the federal class action lawsuit. He is represented by […]

A lawsuit filed Saturday alleges that Texas A&M University’s hiring practices discriminate against white and Asian men applying for faculty positions.  Richard Lowery, an associate professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin, filed a complaint in federal court in Houston, saying the policies at Texas A&M prevented him from being hired at the university. […]

Dr. Richard Lowery, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin, recently filed suit against Texas A&M University over claims of racial discrimination.  The lawsuit alleges that the Texas A&M Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Fellowship Program violates federal civil rights law, setting aside professor positions for specific racial groups. Lowery […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued fourteen federal agencies for actively concealing their “Strategic Plans” for advancing the Biden Administration’s unprecedented program of planned interference in the 2022 midterm elections.  President Biden’s Executive Order 14019, “Promoting Access to Voting,” called for each agency to submit to a “Strategic Plan” for using social […]

Richard Lowery, a finance professor, filed a lawsuit against Texas A&M this week for implementing a faculty fellowship program that reserves positions based on race and sex, reported the Dallas Morning News. America First Legal, a conservative nonprofit organization, is representing Lowery in the class action complaint against the nation’s largest university. The lawsuit argued that the […]

“Texas A&M University has also established faculty-hiring lines that are reserved exclusively for members of ‘underrepresented’ (read: non-Asian) racial minorities,” the lawsuit states. The class action lawsuit was filed in federal court Saturday by Richard Lowrey who argues that the university’s affirmative action policies have blocked him from being hired as a result of him being white. […]

In many colleges and universities, faculty hiring and promotion are subject to highly discriminatory conditions. Many positions are reserved for women and “persons of color” because the decision-makers want to promote “diversity.” The applicants must also avow certain beliefs. The way this works out is that applicants who might have the wrong views (i.e., who […]

Texas A&M University is facing a Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit over its hiring practices, which allegedly discriminate against white and Asian men to advance its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” agenda. America First Legal, a group founded by longtime Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, filed the complaint on behalf of Richard Lowery, an associate professor of finance at […]

A lawsuit filed Sept. 10 alleges that Texas A&M University’s hiring practices discriminate against white and Asian men applying for faculty positions. Richard Lowery, an associated professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin, filed a complaint to the Houston federal court saying the policies at Texas A&M prevented him from being hired at the […]

EXCLUSIVE — Texas A&M University is being accused of actively discriminating against white and Asian faculty job applicants in a lawsuit filed by a conservative legal organization . America First Legal filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of Richard Lowery, a professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin who says he is “able and ready” to apply for a […]