Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued New York University (NYU) on behalf of a first-year law student for discriminating based on race and sex when selecting the members and editors of its law review. Federal law prohibits universities that receive federal funds from discriminating on account of race and sex. But the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice for failing to require Hunter Biden to register as an agent of Ukraine, China, Russia, and Romania during the Obama administration. The Foreign Agents Registration Act requires each […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) issued the following statement from Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Vice President and General Counsel, regarding the partisan targeting of President Trump and the latest gag order imposed on him: “The Biden regime has now sought and obtained a court order to prevent the President’s primary political […]

U.S. District Court Orders the State Department to Turn Over Documents and Make Officials Available for Depositions WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) secured a key victory in its case filed on behalf of Stuart and Robbi Force, Sarri Singer, and Rep. Ronny Jackson against President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken for […]

Even without the Presidential Records Act, the President has sole authority over his presidential papers. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released a whitepaper detailing why–as a matter of constitutional law, the Presidential Records Act (PRA), and historical practice–the President of the United States has absolute authority over presidential papers. Neither Congress nor […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal’s (AFL) Center for Legal Equality filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Major League Baseball (MLB) for racially discriminatory programs.  MLB’s official website reports at least four facially unlawful employment and contracting programs: the “MLB Diversity Pipeline Program,” the “Diversity […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal’s (AFL) Center for Legal Equality filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Salesforce, Inc., for engaging in unlawful race and sex based discrimination. AFL also sent a letter to Salesforce’s Board of Directors demanding that the Company’s management stop violating […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Johnathan Talbot alleging that Manoah Ainuu, a sponsored athlete for The North Face, defamed Talbot by falsely accusing him of making a racist comment, resulting in Talbot being terminated from his job at Outdoor Research. The complaint also alleges that The […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL), through its Center for Legal Equality, launched an initiative targeting illegal discrimination by law schools, corporate legal departments, and “Big Law” law firms.  On June 29, 2023, journalist Chris Rufo released a video of the University of California Berkeley’s School of Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky admitting that […]

AFL Filed Briefs In Support of Tennessee & Kentucky WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a district-court preliminary injunction in the case of L.W. v. Skrmetti. As a result, the laws of Tennessee and Kentucky that protect children from irreversible chemical castration and genital mutilation will […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released new documents, obtained through litigation against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), revealing how the Biden Administration funded a contract for a former Obama and Biden Administration staffer to the tune of billions of dollars. While the topline number has been reported recently, documents […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) secured a victory when the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas Austin Division denied the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for unlawfully enforcing the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) sent a letter to the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education Superintendent regarding a blatant First Amendment violation in the district by illegally blocking users on the social media platform, X. AFL sent a letter on behalf of the X account, @EITC_Official (“Inside the Classroom”), […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) called on the Department of Education to open an investigation of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) located in Atlanta, Georgia, citing evidence that Georgia Tech has violated Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972.  In 2012, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) began […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and failing to turn over documents to the public. On March 7, 2023, the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released shocking documents obtained from the University of Utah Health: Gender Management and Support Clinic regarding disturbing “transgender treatments” being administered on minors. In June, AFL filed five public records requests with public gender clinics in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Utah, and Virginia to obtain records related to […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, America First Legal (AFL) launched a new, multi prong Freedom of Information Act investigation into the origin and evolution of the COVID-19 virus, seeking records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.  AFL’s investigation follows the recent publication of two very troubling […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a friend of the court brief in the case Doe v. Horne to defend the Arizona Save Women’s Sports Act. The Act prohibits biological males from playing on girls’ sports teams in schools. On April 17, 2023, two biological […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal President Stephen Miller released a statement following the acquittal of Attorney General Ken Paxton by the Texas State Senate: “America First Legal proudly congratulates and salutes Attorney General Ken Paxton on his exoneration and vindication today before the Texas State Senate. Ken is the nation’s indispensable Attorney General and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released a new report showing how the FBI has weaponized the federal background investigation process to help Democratic presidents and to deny Republican Presidents, specifically President Trump, the ability to appoint the political leadership they want. Based on findings uncovered from AFL’s investigation of the Biden Administration’s […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal Vice President and General Counsel released the following statement following Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s ordering of an impeachment inquiry of President Biden. “Never before in our history has evidence of such blatant corruption been displayed at the highest levels of government. The available evidence already shows […]

MA AG’s Office Claims Censorship Records Could Reveal “Law Enforcement Matters” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General regarding the existence and number of law enforcement investigations relating to misinformation or disinformation based on information it revealed in […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as part of its ongoing efforts to protect the integrity of women’s sports, America First Legal (AFL) filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case Hecox v. Little. The case concerns Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which protects women and girls […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) launched a new investigation by filing a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) regarding Joe Biden’s apparent use of private email accounts for official business during his time as Vice President in the Obama Administration. On August 17, 2023, […]