A former aide in the Trump administration is launching a “conservative answer to the ACLU” after a barrage of lawsuits the Trump administration faced during its tenure.
Stephen Miller, who served as a key aide to former President Donald Trump and spearheaded the administration’s immigration policies, is launching America First Legal, which aims to challenge the agenda of President Joe Biden’s administration in the courts.
“The most important thing we could do as people who philosophically believe in traditional values, conservative values … was to develop and launch a conservative answer to the ACLU,” Miller told the Wall Street Journal of the effort.
The group will work with Republican state attorneys general and former administration lawyers, and it will also provide funding to attorneys nationwide to help them challenge the Biden administration.
“Anything the president does that we believe to be illegal is fair game,” Miller added.
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In his time at the White House, Miller said he witnessed how legal action can impede an administration, a tactic he called “extraordinarily effective.” Miller recounted that the administration “wouldn’t get just one lawsuit in one court, we’d get six lawsuits in six courts,” adding that there was no “counterpoint to that” on the Right.
The executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero, was dismissive of the project, saying Miller would have a “tough road to travel.”
The group filed 413 lawsuits against the former president in his four years in office, litigating key policy initiatives from the White House, including adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census and Trump’s immigration policy.
“As we know, the Radical Left has been relentless in waging their battles in court. Conservatives and America First supporters badly need to catch up and turn the tables, which is why I applaud Stephen and Mark Meadows for rushing to fill this critical void,” former President Donald Trump said in a statement released Wednesday in support of the project. “The era of unilateral legal surrender must end — and I hope all America First patriots will get behind America First Legal.”
America First Legal has garnered the support of other Trumpworld heavyweights, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. Both will serve on the organization’s board of directors.
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While Miller declined to release fundraising numbers, he said that he had fundraised “a tidy sum of money” from donors “who can write very large checks.” America First Legal will solicit smaller donations soon.
The Biden administration has faced conservative legal resistance from Republican state attorneys general. Days into Biden’s tenure, Texas sued over the administration’s 100-day freeze on deportations. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, a Trump appointee, ruled in the state’s favor and banned the deportation moratorium.
