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(Detroit, MI – March 10, 2025)  Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Oakland County; Karen McDonald, the Oakland County Prosecutor; Michael Bouchard, the Oakland County Sheriff; Matthew Peschke, an Oakland County…

(March 5, 2025 – Richmond, Va)  Today, the Department of Justice formally withdrew the Biden administration’s “Statement of Interest” amicus brief submitted in the Virginia Supreme Court for case number 240707, J.M. et al. v. A.A., et al. This incredible case involves non-relative Afghans suing Major Joshua and Stephanie Mast,…

Trump promised to end the Biden-era weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ), which occurred under the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland.  And he has made good on that promise. Last year, government lawyers, at the direction of Merrick Garland, filed a civil lawsuit under the Freedom of Access…

(January 7, 2025) – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued its decision reversing a lower court’s dismissal of the federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a former Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer against the City of Tulsa and its former chief of police who fired the…

(Los Angeles, CA) – On December 9, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied the City of Los Angeles’s motion to dismiss the American Freedom Law Center’s class action lawsuit challenging the policy and practice of the City and its police department of systematically relocating…

(Cleveland, Ohio – November 22, 2024) – The weaponization of Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) under the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland is plainly evident, and primary targets of this “lawfare” are pro-lifers. Recently, government lawyers, at the direction of the Attorney General, filed a civil lawsuit under the…

On October 8, 2024, a United States Marine Corps Board of Inquiry (BOI) found no serious wrongdoing and retained Major Joshua Mast for future service in the Marine Corps based on the evidence presented. The BOI rejected the false and salacious narrative championed by the Taliban, the State Department, its…

On Thursday, September 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (3 judge panel)  heard oral argument in an important case involving the free speech rights of government employees,  The appellate court convened at a special session held at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder. …

This Thursday (September 26, 2024), AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise will be arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit at a special session to be held at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder. Muise will be arguing an important First Amendment case,…

(Ypsilanti, Michigan) – On August 27, 2024, several officers from the City of Ypsilanti, Michigan police department unlawfully detained (handcuffed and placed in a patrol car) our client, Tom Banks, for exercising his fundamental right to freedom of speech. See the below photograph, which captured the unlawful actions of the…