INTERVIEW | ‘Let's Take the Fight to Them’: Why This Legal Group Keeps Suing Biden Administration

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

An organization called America First Legal has filed at least two dozen lawsuits against the Biden administration.

"We need to fight for the American people, advance conservative principles, and be there to really make a difference," Gene Hamilton, vice president and legal counsel for America First Legal, says.

Hamilton served as counselor to the attorney general at the Justice Department during the Trump administration and he recalls growing weary of various leftist groups filing lawsuits to block President Donald Trump's agenda.

“It's a little bit of an exaggeration …," Hamilton says, "but it's almost close to the truth that every time we'd have a press conference, there would be some organization that would file a lawsuit representing somebody to get us enjoined before we could even get done with the press conference to get things off the ground."

When President Joe Biden came to office in January 2021, Hamilton and Stephen Miller, who was a senior advisor in the Trump administration, decided to “do what they do.”

“Let's take the fight to them,” Hamilton says of America First Legal’s approach to fighting the policies of the Left. “Let's be equipped and ready to bring the battles to the Left, wherever it may be, whether that's in the government, whether that's in big business, big education, wherever.”

Hamilton joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how America First Legal is fighting the Biden administration'seffort to redefine sex. He also explains how the legal group is looking into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Civil Podcast for Monday, May 22, I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.1	America First Legal has filed at least two dozen lawsuits against the Biden administration.
0:16.4	Jean Hamilton says.
0:18.1	Jean Hamilton is vice president and legal counsel for America First Legal, a group that is
0:23.2	working to hold the Biden administration to account.
0:27.4	They're serving in the Trump administration and watching so many left-leading groups
0:32.8	bring lawsuits against the work of the Trump administration, Hamilton said he grew frustrated.
0:40.1	And decided he was going to take the fight to them during the Biden administration.
0:45.5	Hamilton joins the show today to explain some of those lawsuits and how his organization
0:51.2	is working to bring accountability back to Washington, D.C.
0:55.5	Stay tuned for our conversation after this.
0:58.5	And I'll never forget just being fearful for my life.
1:01.0	Let your phone calls, emails, protests outside the shop.
1:04.3	I remember sleeping on the floor of my bedroom, seeing the headlights driving by, just wondering
1:10.0	if someone was going to carry out on some of the threats that I had seen in emails.
1:13.4	Here I am on this journey, hopefully to protect not only my right to speak freely,
1:16.9	but everyone's right to do just the same.
1:19.8	You've just listened to a sneak peek from our brand new documentary about Laurie Smith.
1:24.3	She's a web designer who the state of Colorado wants to force into creating LGBTQ
1:29.1	websites and other content that directly violates her beliefs.
1:33.3	We spoke with her and with Christian Baker Jack Phillips about their cases
1:37.4	and about what's at stake for the First Amendment.
	...

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