In Mahmoud v Taylor, 606 U.S. 522 (2025), the Supreme Court affirmed the authority of parents to decide whether their children would be subjected to a LGBTQ curriculum. That decision confirmed that parents are entitled to know what their children would be taught and given the right to “opt-out.” Here, the Ninth Circuit has sanctioned […]
In Trump v. Carroll, Citizens United, Citizens United Foundation, and The Presidential Coalition, LLC urge the Supreme Court to review the $5 million defamation verdict against President Trump for two reasons: (1) the evidentiary rulings of the trial court judge blatantly violated Trump’s due process rights causing the trial to resemble a Court of Star Chamber […]
Citizens United and other conservative groups filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Supreme Court to take up the National Rifle Association’s (“NRA”) appeal of the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision granting former New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo qualified immunity from civil damages on account of her abuse […]
This week Citizens United filed an amicus brief with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in the matter of Jeffrey B. Clark. Citizens United’s brief focuses on the profound 1st Amendment freedom of speech and 6th Amendment effective assistance of legal counsel implications of the proposed action against Clark. We urge the court to reject the […]
On Tuesday, September 30, Citizens United joined retired Army Lt. General Michael T. Flynn and several conservative organizations in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit urging the court to overturn an order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that preliminarily blocks the War […]
Citizens United joins an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to stay a U.S. District Court order enjoining the removal of a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). Trump v. Slaughter is another judicial overreach case in which a U.S. District Court judge issued an order purporting to block President Trump from firing an […]
In Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections, Citizens United joined forces with other organizations urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which held that a congressman seeking re-election lacks standing to challenge a state law that extends the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots for two […]
“The injunction issued by the district court cannot properly be viewed in isolation, but rather as the latest chapter in a war being waged — largely successfully — by one district court judge to prevent both the first and second Trump Administrations from lawfully exercising the discretion given by Congress to the Executive Branch to […]
“Believing it had jurisdiction to review the challenged decision, the district court felt free to impose its own policy preferences, declaring the Hegseth Policy invalid. The district court gave little deference to how the Constitution bears on this issue. It never considered whether the issue of military readiness might be an area where the political […]
“The Government’s Application for Stay raises vital issues of law that fully justify this Court treating it as a petition for writ of certiorari before judgment and granting it. Too many lower courts imposing injunctions against the Trump Administration have tainted their decisions with political observations. Whether the President of the United States has the […]
On January 31, 2024, Citizens United filed a lawsuit against both the State Department and Defense Department for similar records relating to Iran’s influence in the Biden Administration. On October 26, 2023, CU submitted a FOIA request to the Department of Defense. The request sought: All emails or text messages to or from Chief of Staff for […]
On Friday, March 28, 2025, several conservative organizations, including Citizens United, banded together, to file an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant President Trump’s request to stay a series of lower court decisions barring the federal government from implementing the President’s executive order denying so-called “birthright citizenship” to the offspring of persons […]