Month: February 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for illegally concealing records related to the off-label use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children. On September 29, 2022, AFL filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all Biden FDA records  regarding the off-label use […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) and co-counsel Christopher Mills sued the South Carolina House of Representatives Legislative Ethics Committee on behalf of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus to protect free speech.  Currently, South Carolina law allows only certain legislative caucuses to raise money and engage in the full range of protected free […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a formal complaint with the House Committee on Administration’s Communications Standards Commission against Representative Veronica Escobar (TX-16) for her attempt to silence AFL in blatant violation of the official standards governing the use of official office communications by Members of Congress. On November 2, 2022, Rep. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal’s (AFL) Center for Legal Equality launched an investigation of the Biden Administration’s illegal plans for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make race-based tax audit and enforcement decisions.   Congress has prohibited the IRS from collecting race and ethnicity data from American taxpayers. But since President Biden took office, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, President Biden issued an Executive Order titled “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” Without any Congressional authorization, Biden has ordered a radical, racist, and fundamentally anti-American overhaul of every federal function under the guise of “equity.”  Background on “Equity” “Equity” is a euphemism for […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as part of its ongoing litigation blitz against the Biden Administration’s unlawful obstruction of America First Legal’s (AFL) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, AFL sued Biden’s Department of State. This suit aims to expose: America First Legal is determined to hold the Biden Administration accountable for breaking federal law and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) for systematically violating federal law by refusing to comply with seven AFL Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The requests cover: America First Legal is determined to hold the Biden Administration accountable for breaking federal law and concealing these […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL), in partnership with the State of Texas and twenty other states, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against Biden’s Department of Homeland Security, seeking to immediately cease its illegal new program that will allow hundreds of thousands of additional illegal aliens to be […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal (AFL) commends Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s office for issuing a memo reminding state agencies and universities that considering “diversity, equity and inclusion” in employment or admissions is illegal. The letter states that “federal and state law forbid discrimination against a current or prospective employee because of that person’s race, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a complaint with the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility–the office responsible for investigating attorney misconduct for the Department–seeking an investigation to determine whether Biden DOJ lawyers maliciously prosecuted pro-life advocate Mark Houck under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. According to […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released a comprehensive investigative report finding that Biden’s Department of Justice is systematically evading the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to shield its activities from public view, and that forty percent of Biden’s cabinet agencies simply fail to comply with the FOIA’s plain requirements. Specifically: Statement from […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to uncover records related to the production of their document, “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool.”  The document, 32 pages in length, has a purpose of assisting “schools and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal (AFL) proudly represents Congressman Ronny Jackson (TX-13), Stuart and Robbi Force, parents of West Point graduate Taylor Force murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv, and Sarri Singer, the survivor of a suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus, in their lawsuit against President Biden and Secretary of State […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) has launched a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation into the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regarding the apparently illegal storage of Joe Biden’s Senate records at the University of Delaware.  In prior lawsuits against the University of Delaware for information about these records, Joe Biden’s […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Education regarding its notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA). The PPRA was enacted to protect parents and children by ensuring public schools are transparent and accountable. Among other […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL), and its counsel, Christopher Mills, proudly continued AFL’s ongoing fight to protect Title IX and girls’ sports from the Biden Administration’s extreme gender ideology agenda in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in The State of Tennessee, et […]