America First Legal Newsletter – December 13, 2025

As the holiday season quickly approaches, America First Legal is not slowing down. This week, we continued advancing the fight for our nation’s values with bold action and decisive progress. Below are key accomplishments that demonstrate how your support helps us defend freedom, expose government overreach, uphold civil rights, and put America First. This week, AFL’s highlights include:

• Revealing that the State of Hawaii lacks any evidence of harm in its Medicaid data lawsuit against the Trump Administration.

• Filing a federal civil rights complaint against the San Francisco 49ers for illegal race-based discrimination.

• Filing a brief at the Supreme Court in support of President Trump in the weaponized lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll. 

• Filed a formal petition for rulemaking with the EPA to rescind a Biden-era regulation that provided benefits in the name of “environmental justice.”

• And last–but not least–the U.S. Department of Justice moved to intervene in AFL’s lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools, seeking to defend student safety and constitutional rights.

THIS WEEK’S KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

America First Legal has filed a brief backing the Trump Administration’s effort to stop Fairfax and Arlington County schools from enforcing unlawful bathroom and locker room policies. The U.S. Department of Education, under Secretary Linda McMahon, correctly placed these school boards on “high risk status” for violating Title IX by allowing biological males who claim a female “gender identity” into girls’ private facilities.

Title IX clearly refers to biological sex — not invented gender categories. Fairfax and Arlington’s radical policies endanger student safety, privacy, and the original purpose of Title IX, which is to protect equal opportunities for female students. AFL urges the Fourth Circuit to uphold the Department’s findings and restore commonsense, sex-separated facilities in America’s schools.

America First Legal is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the lower courts’ deeply flawed rulings in E. Jean Carroll’s biased lawsuit and correct the egregious injustice inflicted on President Trump. The lower courts bent long-standing evidentiary rules to admit unreliable, decades-old accusations while blocking key rebuttal evidence — producing a verdict that defies both logic and fairness.

AFL’s brief highlights how New York’s retroactive Adult Survivors Act conveniently revived Carroll’s 30-year-old claim and how the court allowed prejudicial, unverified allegations while excluding facts that undermined Carroll’s credibility. Allowing these rulings to stand would erode the equal application of the Federal Rules of Evidence and open the door to more politically driven attacks in the courts. The Supreme Court must restore fairness, protect the rule of law, and ensure that justice cannot be twisted to serve partisan narratives.

America First Legal Demands EPA Rescind Biden-Era “Environmental Justice” Regulation

America First Legal filed a petition for rulemaking calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind a Biden-era regulation that fast-tracked Freedom of Information Act requests for certain activists under the guise of “environmental justice.” Federal law allows expedited processing only in narrow, clearly defined circumstances, yet the EPA created a system that rewards “favored requesters” and punishes everyday Americans with delays and heavy fees.

Although the Trump Administration has already moved to dismantle these environmental-justice directives, this Biden-era FOIA loophole still gives special treatment to those who use the right buzzwords. AFL’s petition seeks to restore a fair, lawful process where every citizen is treated equally. We remain committed to transparency, accountability, and ending political favoritism in federal agencies.

America First Legal Reveals the State of Hawaii Lacks Evidence of Harm in Medicaid Data Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration

America First Legal has revealed that Hawaii, despite joining left-wing lawsuits against President Trump, cannot produce a shred of evidence that sharing Medicaid data with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would cause any real harm. Hawaii’s own filings admit that its Medicaid program already sends sensitive information to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — a federal agency — every month without issue.

Despite this, in response to AFL’s Freedom of Information Act request, the state could not produce a single record showing data leaks, increased costs, compromised care, or any harm tied to the Trump Administration’s policy. Without actual harm, Hawaii lacks standing to sue and should not be able to proceed with its case.

America First Legal Files Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against the San Francisco 49ers for Illegal Race-Based Discrimination

America First Legal has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the San Francisco 49ers, exposing how the team’s woke DEI agenda appears to violate federal law by prioritizing race and sex over merit in hiring. While Coach Kyle Shanahan proudly says the team plays “the best player” on the field, the organization’s off-field practices openly embrace discriminatory quotas, biased employee groups, and minority-only coaching fellowships.

Public statements from team leadership make clear that DEI is baked into hiring, recruiting, and promotions — directly conflicting with Title VII’s ban on race- and sex-based employment decisions. AFL is demanding accountability. The 49ers must return to true meritocracy and end discriminatory policies that have no place in American sports or the workplace.

U.S. Department of Justice Seeks to Intervene in America First Legal’s Lawsuit Against Loudoun County Public Schools

The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to intervene in America First Legal and the Founding Freedoms Law Center’s (FFLC) lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). AFL and FFLC filed the lawsuit in September after LCPS punished two male students who objected to a biological female student entering the boys’ locker room. In October, AFL and FFLC secured a preliminary injunction that stopped LCPS from suspending the students and removed LCPS’s Title IX findings from their records.

DOJ’s involvement underscores the seriousness of Loudoun County’s lawlessness. No school district has the authority to punish students for expressing concerns about privacy. This intervention should send a clear message to LCPS and school boards across the country: ideology cannot and does not override the safety and rights of students.

AFL President Gene Hamilton Joins Life, Liberty, & Levin to Discuss Trump’s Fight to Reform Immigration

Watch the interview HERE.

AFL President Gene Hamilton Calls Out Immigration Hypocrisy on Life, Liberty, & Levin

Watch the interview HERE.

AMERICA FIRST LEGAL IN THE NEWS: 

“Represented by America First Legal (AFL) and the Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC), the families sued in the case now known as S.W. et al. v. Loudoun County School Board. In October, a Virginia judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the suspensions. And this is where the DOJ comes in.”

Daily Wire: Hawaii Says Trump’s Medicaid Policy Is Harmful. They Can’t Prove It

“America First Legal submitted records demands for documents showing any data leaks or improper disclosures, instances of Medicaid information reaching immigration authorities, increased hospital costs or uncompensated care, drops in enrollment or reluctance from noncitizens, any administrative burden, any deaths or adverse patient outcomes, and interference with the state’s ability to administer Medicaid.”

Washington Examiner: ‘Environmental justice’ EPA rule drives unequal FOIA treatment, conservative legal group says

“America First Legal, the firm founded by President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller, filed a major Freedom of Information Act request and a companion petition for rulemaking challenging the EPA’s 2022 decision to let requesters claim a so-called “environmental justice–related need” as a basis for expedited processing. The group says that carveout opened a political pathway to faster access to federal records, contradicting FOIA’s requirement that agencies handle requests in a content-neutral manner.”

Catholic News Agency: Virginia school district concedes lawsuit by Catholic student over transgender policies

“On Dec. 2, the law group America First Legal called the case a “major victory,” saying the Fairfax school district conceded the lawsuit, offering “nominal damages” and paying costs, including attorney’s fees.”

Fox News: 49ers face civil rights complaint over alleged sex and race-based hiring practices

“The law firm America First Legal (AFL) filed a civil rights complaint against the San Francisco 49ers with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for alleged discriminatory hiring practices.

AFL filed a similar complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers over its hiring practices.

AFL’s Dodgers complaint claims the team and its ownership group Guggenheim Partners’ employment practices are discriminatory because ‘even when using inclusive terminology,’ it is used ‘to segregate or classify employees or applicants for employment in ways that would deprive, or tend to deprive individuals of employment, training, or promotions because of their race, color, sex, or national origin.’”

Washington Post: Justice Dept. seeks to join families’ suit in Va. school locker room case

“America First Legal, a conservative organization founded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and one of two groups who filed the Loudoun families’ lawsuit, has said the policies provide ‘greater rights to students whose ‘gender identity’ does not match their biological sex.’ The districts have said the policies are designed to help make schools a more welcoming environment.”

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