UPDATE (Dec. 12, 2019): The Federal Bureau of Investigation, by and through the U.S. Department of Justice, today sent SLF a letter maintaining "no relevant documents" in the ongoing litigation described below - despite the release this week of the DOJ Inspector General report on FISA abuse and the Carter Page surveil...
ATLANTA/ATHENS, GA: Representing a group of concerned students, Southeastern Legal Foundation submitted a letter to the University of Georgia’s Student Government Association demanding that it immediately rescind its unconstitutional resolutions chilling free speech on campus.
WASHINGTON, DC: Today, Southeastern Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the federal government’s lawsuit against California’s unconstitutional and unlawful sanctuary state laws. A critical constitutional issue that engages federal, state and local governments – and public safet...
CHICAGO, IL: Today, Southeastern Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief in a very important case (Speech First v. Killeen) out of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit supporting a group of college students fighting for their First Amendment rights.
The students are members of Speech First, a nonprofit organizat...
UPDATE (Nov. 7, 2019): Following the State Department’s first release of documents to John Solomon and Southeastern Legal Foundation,Senate Finance Committee Chairman Senators Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked the State Department to pr...
WASHINGTON, DC (Nov. 6, 2019): Southeastern Legal Foundation joined National Association of Reversionary Property Owners, Professor James W. Ely, and the Cato Institute, in filing an amicus brief supporting a group of landowners in Georgia whose property is being unlawfully taken and turned into public trails.
WASHINGTON, DC: Today, Southeastern Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Valent v. Saul, a case involving extraordinary government overreach. The Commissioner of Social Security imposed over $126,000 in sanctions against a disabled woman who did not report that she did unpaid vol...
(Austin, Texas): Unless you live in Travis County or Williamson County, Texas, you have likely never heard of the bone cave harvestman. What sounds like something out of a thriller movie is really just a blind, translucent arachnid – a spider so small that it takes nearly 14 surveys to even be sure of its presence.
(WASHINGTON, DC): Southeastern Legal Foundation today again weighed into the DACA matter before the U.S. Supreme Court, filing an amicus brief in the latest appeal to the high court.
In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security announced the non-enforcement policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)....
WASHINGTON, DC: Southeastern Legal Foundation today filed an important amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on separation of powers and core constitutional limits on government authority, and urged the Court to address whether the single-director Consumer Financial Protection Board is constitutional.
