Month: July 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) demanded a multi-front federal government investigation into Dr. David Morens, Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), for the unlawful destruction and failure to retain of public records by using a personal email address to conduct official business. Dr. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Education regarding the Biden White House’s announcement that the Department’s Office of Civil Rights is appointing a new “coordinator” to fortify government-run schools’ efforts to trample parental rights and promote vulgar gender-extremist books in […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to compel the release of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s FBI background investigation documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Secretary Mayorkas’s abysmal performance has led to the introduction of several […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal’s (AFL) Center for Legal Equality sent a cease and desist letter to the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) demanding they stop using racial preferences in hiring and internship programs.  PwC is an internationally recognized name as one of the “Big Three” accounting firms. But in the United States, they […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) and co-counsel Jonathan F. Mitchell continued the fight to protect children by filing another brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a case involving laws passed by the State of Tennessee and the Commonwealth of Kentucky that protect children from irreversible chemical […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of State, seeking their communications with Imran Ahmed and his group, the Center for Countering Digital […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) proudly launched a new and improved Woke Wagon website with new features, easier navigation, and expanded capabilities. AFL’s Woke Wagon – launched one year ago today – is a public-facing database of names, resumes, and other employment information of Biden Administration political appointees. AFL submitted FOIA requests […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal (AFL) and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) on behalf of our client, Michael Cargill, who owns and operates Central Texas Gun Works. Under the Biden Administration, the ATF has implemented a new policy to revoke gun dealers’ licenses for […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) and co-counsel Christopher Mills filed a critical brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Loper Bright Enterprises, et al., v. Gina Raimondo, et al.  The case factually involves governmental overreach and an attempt by a federal agency to claim power to which it has […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for failing to require Hunter Biden to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) during the Obama Administration and subsequently failing to make a public statement regarding the matter. In March, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, AFL issued the following statement from  Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Vice-President and General Counsel, in response to former President Trump announcing he received a letter from special counsel Jack Smith stating that he is the target of a January 6 grand jury investigation: “Merrick Garland and Jack Smith appear hellbent […]

AFL Filed a Brief Earlier This Week in This Critical Case WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted a stay of a lower court injunction in L.W. v. Skrmetti–allowing to go into effect Tennessee’s law that protects children from irreversible chemical castration and genital mutilation.  Tennessee […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of State for hiding Global Engagement Center (GEC) records regarding the Biden Administration’s outsourcing of censorship to leftist nonprofits.  On December 6, 2022, AFL filed nine Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to uncover records relating to GEC […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, one week after the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, America First Legal (AFL) sent a demand letter to the deans of nearly every medical school in the United States, demanding that they cease discriminating based on race, sex, and national […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal (AFL) has sued the Biden Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security for unlawfully refusing to produce records regarding Hunter Biden.    On March 25, 2022, AFL filed Freedom of Information Act requests with each agency for Hunter Biden records generated between February 21, 2022, and the present. These requests […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in support of a Tennessee law that protects children from being subjected to dangerous and experimental gender-modification surgeries and treatments.  Tennessee passed its law with bipartisan support earlier this year, and it was […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Hatch Act complaint with the Office of Special Counsel regarding Biden Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. The Hatch Act prohibits partisan political activity by government employees that risks even the appearance of favoritism for one political party or candidate over another. Therefore, the Office of […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, on behalf of its clients, America First Legal (AFL) filed a motion to intervene and proposed motion to dismiss in a lawsuit to protect Arizona’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” a law that passed in March 2022 to prohibit biological males from playing on girls’ sports teams at public schools. On April […]