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(Richmond, VA — April 22, 2026)  Yesterday, the Virginia Supreme Court flatly rejected the petition for a rehearing of the Court’s previous ruling on February 12 of this year rejecting the Afghan couple’s legal challenge of the adoption of a badly wounded baby girl left orphaned on an Afghan battlefield…

Last week, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise argued two important cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, both arguments were held on the same day (March 19).  You can listen to the arguments in the links provided below. American Freedom Law Center v. Dana…

In 2023, three Biden electors from Michigan filed a civil lawsuit against the sixteen alternate-slate Trump electors from the 2020 general election.  The American Freedom Law Center is representing five of the sixteen Trump electors in this lawsuit. On October 22, 2025, the presiding circuit court judge in Kent County,…

(Richmond, VA — February 12, 2026)  In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled in favor of Joshua and Stephanie Mast, upholding their adoption of a severely wounded orphaned child rescued by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. This ruling brings to a close years of complex litigation…

(Moscow, Idaho) – A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho ruled on November 20, 2025, that the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Nathan Wilson and his two sons against the City of Moscow, Idaho and several of its officials may proceed. The American…

On October 3, 2025, the American Freedom Law Center filed an Emergency Application for Writ of Injunction in the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to enjoin the Oakland County Prosecutor’s unlawful prosecution of Andrew Hess for allegedly violating Michigan’s “terrorist threat” statute—a 20-year felony. Earlier that week, the U.S. Court of…

In March 2024, A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia reversed, in part, her prior ruling dismissing our lawsuit challenging the military COVID-19 vaccination mandate on behalf of four Navy SEALs. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed on mootness grounds…

(Washington, D.C. – July 28, 2025) – Today, we filed a petition for writ of certiorari, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up our case filed against Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, on behalf of two pro-life members of Red Rose Rescue. During a press conference convened…

(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,…