Press Releases

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 […]

WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a motion for class certification and a motion for preliminary injunction in our lawsuit on behalf of our client–Cornell Law School Professor William A. Jacobson–against the New York State Department of Health over its racist and unconstitutional directive that instructs health-care providers to ration lifesaving […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last month, America First Legal (AFL) joined as co-counsel in a petition asking the Supreme Court to review the use of race and sex preferences at New York University. And on Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States requested a response from the university’s lawyers.  Federal law prohibits universities that accept […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Last night, America First Legal (AFL) filed for a preliminary injunction in our case representing a long-time federal prosecutor in Wyoming–who has spent her entire career investigating and prosecuting organized crime and drug cases– challenging the Biden Administration’s unlawful vaccine mandate for federal employees. The motion asks for the court to enjoin […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal launched a toolkit today to help parents protect their children from woke indoctrination by enforcing an important federal law ensuring transparency in public school classrooms. The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment guarantees parents access to all of the instructional materials used in public school classrooms, including teacher training manuals […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records regarding an apparent assault by senior Biden White House officials on the independence and integrity of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. Historically, the Office of Legal Counsel provides candid, independent, and principled legal analysis […]

WASHINGTON, DC – –  Today, America First Legal, serving as outside counsel for the State of Texas, sued the Biden Administration on behalf of a coalition of states–Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Alaska–over the Biden Administration’s implementation of an unlawful program to bring the relatives of illegal aliens into the United States: the […]

WASHINGTON, DC – – On Friday, citing “legal concerns,” the State of Utah’s Department of Health announced the elimination of policies that directed the rationing of medical treatment for COVID-19 based on race. This announcement comes after America First Legal (AFL) sent a letter threatening legal action against the Department of Health for including race […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding the Department of Justice’s recommendation substantially reducing the sentence of a career criminal who burned down a pawn shop and killed a man during the Minneapolis BLM riots of 2020, because of the perpetrator’s race.  According to the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal applauds the decision in a case out of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas today to preliminarily enjoin President Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal workers. America First Legal also applauds the legal team at Boyden Gray & Associates who brought the challenge on behalf of […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, America First Legal (AFL) filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court of the United States in the case McDonald v. Firth. This case involves state bar associations using mandatory bar dues to fund woke, activist programs and activities. In its brief, AFL argued that the Court should hear the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records from the Department of Justice’s National Security Division regarding its newly-created “Domestic Terrorism Unit.”  On January 11, 2022, Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, saying, “The threat of posed […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal submitted comments with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regarding the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers.  That mandate–which came in the form of an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)–was stayed by the Supreme Court by a vote of 6-3 last week. As a result, the […]

WASHINGTON – Last night, America First Legal sued the New York State Department of Health over its racist and unconstitutional directive that instructs health-care providers to ration life-saving medical treatments for COVID-19 based on the race of the patient. Under New York’s policy, health-care providers must give automatic priority to non-whites and Latinos when deciding […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) President Stephen Miller released the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling on President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with more than 100 employees: “We applaud the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the rule of law and halting an unconstitutional executive overreach of […]

WASHINGTON, DC – – Today, America First Legal (AFL) threatened legal action again, this time against the State of Minnesota Department of Health and the State of Utah Department of Health, for their blatantly racist, unconstitutional, and immoral policies that direct the ration of medicine based on race and self-selected ethnicity.  While the adoption of […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a brief at the Supreme Court of the United States in support of former President Donald J. Trump. AFL’s brief asks the Court to reign in the January 6th Committee, and to protect the separation of powers and the rule of law. As AFL pointed out […]

WASHINGTON, DC – – Today, America First Legal launched a toolkit – accessible on AFLegal.org – to provide federal employees with basic knowledge about how to protect their jobs and their families if they choose not to take the COVID-19 vaccine.  The Biden Administration has promised to fire nearly every federal worker who refuses the […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued the Biden Administration on behalf of a courageous federal employee who is being threatened with termination for “misconduct,” simply because she has refused to submit herself to Biden’s unlawful and unconstitutional federal employee vaccine mandate. Representing a dedicated career civil servant, an Assistant United States Attorney […]

WASHINGTON, DC – – Today, America First Legal (AFL) demanded that the New York State Department of Health rescind their blatantly racist, unconstitutional, and corrupt policies that direct the rationing of medicine based on race. Their policies establish a prioritization scheme for the treatment of patients who identify as non-white or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, denying life-saving […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a brief at the Supreme Court of the United States supporting Dr. Carter Page’s effort to hold the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the law firm of Perkins Coie, Marc Elias, and Michael Sussman accountable for the Russia Collusion hoax, a political dirty trick without parallel in […]

WASHINGTON, DC – – America First Legal filed a brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, slamming the Biden Administration for manipulating the federal courts to gut our immigration laws and bypass the public participation guarantees provided by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, an alien is “inadmissible” if […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit lifted the stay that the Fifth Circuit had previously granted on President Biden’s unlawful, unconstitutional vaccine mandate, reinstating a requirement for companies with 100 workers or more to enforce COVID-19 vaccines for their employees, or subject them to regular testing and […]

WASHINGTON, DC — Last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision delivering a resounding defeat for the Biden Administration, which had unlawfully attempted to terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Throughout its meticulous, 117-page decision, the Fifth Circuit rightly rejected the Biden Administration’s attempts to knowingly abandon its duties […]