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Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) today released a report of its engagement during the October 2021 Supreme Court term.  AFPF Chief Policy Counsel James Valvo said: “There’s one word that sums up our engagement in the October 2021 term: liberty.  Our briefs supported litigants across a broad spectrum of cases, from the […]

Arlington, Va. — Repeated power grabs by the Environmental Protection Agency have seriously imperiled the rights of property owners and must be dialed back, argued Americans for Prosperity Foundation in a Supreme Court brief today. The EPA’s strong-arm tactics have less to do with safeguarding the environment than with the agency’s desire for raw power over […]

Government employs a veritable army of teachers, professors, graduate students, undergraduate work-study students, as well as coaches, teachers’ aides, tutors, and administrators. To what degree can government, as an employer, punish the people it hires for their own personal expression? That’s a live question. The First Amendment protects citizens from the government. The government doesn’t […]

Arlington VA – Americans For Prosperity today congratulated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her nomination to the Supreme Court and urged the Senate to carefully evaluate her qualifications, including her judicial philosophy. Casey Mattox, Vice President for Legal and Judicial Strategy at Americans for Prosperity, issued the following statement: “As AFP has said in previous […]

COLUMBA, SC — Americans for Prosperity-SC (AFP-SC) unveiled its 2022 Legislative Agenda, which includes priorities to expand access to quality, affordable health care, criminal justice reform, and expand economic opportunity. The 2022 Legislative Agenda is available here. AFP-SC State Director Candace Carroll released the following statement:  “Americans for Prosperity is already engaging and seeing our priorities advance […]

People want to know what the law is. It’s a fundamental part of any free society—we should know exactly what rules apply to us, and what rules apply to the government. That is why the idea of having a body of “secret law” is offensive to our constitutional system of government. But what if I […]

Americans for Prosperity Foundation urges Supreme Court to reaffirm the Constitution prohibits unelected, unaccountable officials at federal agencies from claiming legislative and judicial powers Americans for Prosperity Foundation recently filed friend-of-the-Court briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of neither party in American Hospital Association v. Becerra and Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation. In […]

Which one of these signs merits full First Amendment protection: a billboard providing the address of the nearest 24-hour urgent care provider or a billboard exhorting the reader to “Vote No on 15”? If you answered “both” then you’ve identified an anomaly in First Amendment jurisprudence, which would categorize the first example as “commercial speech” […]

During the next term of the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices will again consider the practice of acquitted conduct sentencing. This refers to a judge sentencing a defendant based not only on charges for which they were convicted, but also on alleged conduct for which they were charged, tried, and acquitted. In these cases, the […]