Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just one year ago today, former top-ranking Trump Administration officials launched America First Legal (AFL), a conservative nonprofit organization committed to upholding America First principles and combating the left’s radical and lawless agenda.  In just one year, AFL has successfully led the fight to combat President Joe Biden’s “equity” agenda, defend America’s […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Disney name has been cherished and celebrated by American families for almost a century. Walt Disney spent his life creating a genre intended to entertain America’s children and their families. Iconic, beloved, and trusted for generations, Disney has been warmly welcomed into American homes without hesitation. But as Americans have seen […]

WASHINGTON, DC – America First Legal (AFL) has filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security seeking records about the Biden Administration’s latest efforts to frustrate and prevent the enforcement of federal law against illegal aliens–by effectively granting administrative amnesty to illegal aliens who have pending cases in […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a supplemental document in Neese v. Becerra, AFL’s ongoing federal lawsuit on behalf of a putative class of doctors, warning that the Biden Administration is attempting to intimidate doctors throughout the country into prescribing puberty blockers and so-called “hormone therapy” for children, as well as referrals […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests at nearly every federal agency seeking documents related to the implementation of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 13985, which directed each federal agency to produce an Equity Action Plan.  On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released a printable “The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment: A Toolkit for Parents” to help parents protect their children against woke school boards, administrators, and teachers. This toolkit informs parents of their rights under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), and is a companion to the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, to facilitate its destructive and radical catch-and-release policies, the Biden Administration formally announced new regulations that unlawfully interfere with the immigration enforcement system designed by Congress. The regulations will publish in the Federal Register on Monday, March 28, and will become effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.  Last […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Health and Human Services seeking records that will demonstrate the Biden Administration’s radical push to expand abortion access through HHS’s recently formed “Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access.” President Biden and Secretary Becerra have demonstrated […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal President Stephen Miller issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued an order preliminarily enjoining the Biden Administration’s criminal alien policies in a lawsuit filed by Ohio, Arizona, and Montana.  For months, America First Legal has worked closely with Arizona in […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over just the last five months, the Biden Administration’s data show that it has directly released over 318,000 illegal aliens from the border into communities all across the United States. This unprecedented decimation of the security of our borders–and the mass catch and release of hundreds of thousands of aliens into the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, America First Legal (AFL) filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for State Department records that will begin exposing the Biden Administration’s activities and plans to divide Jerusalem and build Palestinian capabilities that it knows will be used for terror attacks against Jews and other Israelis.  These activities and plans […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, seven new states–Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Utah–joined a lawsuit against the Biden Administration that challenges its implementation of an unlawful program to bring the relatives of illegal aliens into the United States: the Central American Minors (CAM) Program.  The CAM Program–which Congress did not create–establishes a program […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas unanimously ruled that state officials lack authority to enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act, ending a legal challenge to the statute brought by Texas abortion providers. The justices held that the Texas Heartbeat Act may be enforced only through civil-enforcement lawsuits filed by private citizens, leaving […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Justice, seeking records regarding the radical left’s and the Biden Administration’s coordinated smear campaign against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia Thomas.  For thirty years, the left has launched racist, spurious, […]

WASHINGTON, DC — Two weeks ago, America First Legal (AFL) urged the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to investigate the Biden Administration for engaging in prohibited political activities in violation of the Hatch Act related to the 2021 Virginia state gubernatorial election. And last week, OSC confirmed that it had opened a case file about […]

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas just issued an order in a case where AFL serves as outside counsel for the State of Texas. Last year, the State of Texas sued the Biden Administration for failing to use Title 42 for all illegal aliens along the southwest […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Earlier this week, America First Legal (AFL) filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court of the United States in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District–a case involving a high school football coach who was fired for nothing more than praying silently at midfield after football games in the State of Washington.  The […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal joined as co-counsel in a significant case involving a redistricting plan in Pennsylvania, filing an emergency application against the Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Director for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Election Services, and the Governor. AFL seeks a writ of injunction from the Supreme Court of the […]

WASHINGTON, DC – – Today, the New Mexico Department of Health sent a letter to America First Legal (AFL) announcing its discontinuation of policies that directed the rationing of COVID-19 treatment based on race. This response comes after AFL sent a letter on February 9, 2022 to New Mexico threatening legal action against the state’s […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal President Stephen Miller released the following statement regarding today’s oral arguments on the “public charge” statute at the Supreme Court of the United States:  “America First legal is proud to be working with our state Attorneys General to combat the Biden Administration’s lawless attempts to abandon the defense of […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, America First Legal sued The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in state court to enforce its request for records related to UCLA Law Professor E. Tendayi Achiume, a radical proponent of critical race theory and open border policies, under the California Public Records Act. Professor Achiume, who also serves […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be proposing a new rule that would enable and facilitate the use of taxpayer-funded resources–including SNAP, CHIP and Medicaid benefits–without being considered a “public charge” when applying to receive legal residendency in the United States. This new rule is a dramatic […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Last night, America First Legal (AFL) filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a case involving the Biden Administration’s unlawful and unconstitutional federal employee vaccine mandate. The brief explains that the President does not have the authority–constitutional or otherwise–to declare that vaccination is […]

WASHINGTON, DC—America First Legal has filed petitions against two abortion funds in Texas that have admitted to paying for abortions in violation of the Texas Heartbeat Act.  Last week, AFL served papers on Neesha Davé, the Deputy Director of the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, and Kamyon Conner, the Executive Director of the Texas Equal […]