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Boston College professor Peter Ireland and George Mason University student Jacob Meckler discuss college policies regarding COVID-19 booster shots.

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# Jacob M.

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I am a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a graduate of the Antonin Scalia Law School. I am passionate about criminal justice reform, constitutional law issues, and protecting civil liberties.I am a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a graduate of the Antonin Scalia Law School. I am passionate about criminal justice reform, constitutional law issues, and protecting civil liberties.

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It’s not your job to force health on people. Stop trying to be everyone’s nanny. If people want to smoke, it may be a mistake, but it’s their decision not yours.

John Bernhardt even on your grounds, the fault there would be that BB underestimated the capacity of Hamas for pure evil, and tolerated them on Israel’s borders for too long. That argues for a more militant response, and potentially a leadership shift to put even more focus on security. It doesn’t suggest complicity

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION, 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #231 Washington, D.C. 20003 Plaintiff, Civil Action No.: 24-964 v. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1155 Defendant. COMPLAINT 1. Plaintiff America First Legal Foundation (AFL) brings this action against the Department of Defense, to compel compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552. JURISDICTION AND VENUE 2. This Court has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B) and 28 U.S.C. § 1331. Additionally, it may grant declaratory relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201, et seq. 3. Venue is proper in this District pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B) and 28 U.S.C. § 1391(e

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AFL’S FOIA REQUESTS U.N. Rapporteur Request 11. On August 2, 2021, AFL submitted a FOIA request to the State Department, seeking records related to the Secretary’s decision to extend an invitation to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, asking her to investigate “systemic racism” in law enforcement in the United States. A true and original copy of the FOIA request is attached to this at Exhibit A. 12. On August 10, 2021, AFL received an email from the State Department acknowledging receipt of AFL’s FOIA request. That email is attached to the complaint as Exhibit B. 13. This email assigned AFL’s request tracking number F-2021-08873. Id. 14. This email indicated that the State Department would be unable to respond within the statutory deadline. Id. 15. On October 28, 2022, AFL emailed the State Department to ask for a status update. This correspondence is attached to this complaint as Exhibit....

Date: February 14, 2023 Respectfully Submitted /s/ Jacob P. Meckler JACOB P. MECKLER D.C. Bar No. 90005210 AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #231 Washington D.C. 20003 Tel: (972) 861-2132 E-mail: Jacob.Meckler@aflegal.org ANDREW J. BLOCK D.C. Bar No. 90002845 AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE #231 Washington, D.C. 20003 Tel.: (202) 836-7958 E-mail: andrew.block@aflegal.org MICHAEL DING D.C. Bar No. 1027252 AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #231 Washington, D.C. 20003 Tel: (202) 964-3721 E-mail: michael.ding@aflegal.org Counsel for Plaintiff

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No. 23-601 In The Supreme Court of the United States

JOHN AND JANE PARENTS 1, JOHN PARENT 2, PETITIONERS, V. MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND SHEBRA L. EVANS, BRENDA WOLFF, JUDITH DOCCA, KARLA SILVESTRE, REBECCA SMONDROWSKI, LYNNE HARRIS, SCOTT JOFTUS, AND MONIFA B. MCKNIGHT, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES AS MEMBERS OF THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, RESPONDENTS. __

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit __

BRIEF FOR AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS __ REED D. RUBINSTEIN Counsel of Record NICHOLAS R. BARRY IAN D. PRIOR JACOB P. MECKLER America First Legal Foundation 300 Independence Ave. S.E. Washington, DC 20003 (202) 964-3721 reed.rubinstein@aflegal.org Counsel for Amicus Curiae

iNTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE1 America First Legal Foundation (AFL) is a public interest law firm representing citizens in cases of broad public importance. AFL litigates to protect Americans’ constitutional and common law rights, including parental rights, from government overreach. AFL, which is staffed by former Department of Justice officials and a former acting general counsel of the United States Department of Education, has a strong institutional interest in ensuring that the federal courts are open to meritorious complaints of constitutional violations by federal, state, or local governments, and in vigilantly protecting the rights of fit parents to raise and care for their children.

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT The panel majority’s standing decision conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Court. Also, fit parents alone should have the authority to make medical decisions for their children regarding “gender identity.” However, hundreds of school districts nationwide maintain parental preclusion policies, such as the policy at issue here, that transfer such authority to the state, usurping parental rights and causing Constitutional injury. Accordingly, this case raises an important question of federal law that should be settled by this Court.

1 This brief was not written in whole or in part by counsel for any party, and no person or entity other than the amicus has made a monetary contribution to the preparation and submission of this brief. All parties’ received timely notice of the filing of this brief.

ARGUMENT The petitioners are public school parents challenging the Montgomery County, Maryland, School Board’s “Parental Preclusion Policy.” App.107a. This policy regulates the relative rights and responsibilities of parents and state actors with respect to the “gender identity” claims of children attending the Montgomery County Public Schools. App.108a. Among other things, it allows the state to change a child’s name and to exhibit as other than his or her birth sex at school without parental notification. App.150a-155a. It requires administrators at state-run schools to implement a “Gender Support Plan” that will identify a child’s new name, pronouns, which sex-separated facilities the child can use, which athletic teams they can play on, and determine whether school bureaucrats and staff will actively hide all this information from the child’s parents. App.153a. It allows the state to deceive a child’s parents by reverting to the child’s given name when communicating with them. App.155a. The point and purpose of the policy, and of others like it,2 is to deny a parent or guardian critical information regarding the mental and physical health of her child. App.108a. The panel majority’s ruling conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Court. Also, this case raises an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court. Therefore, ...

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Radical Left Makes Inroads at Scalia Law School Under Banner of Black Lives Matter

Scalia Law’s Student Bar Association leads push for race-based agenda.

Posted by Jacob Meckler Friday, June 26, 2020 at 01:00pm 33 Comments

It will come as no surprise to most Americans that academia has been lost largely to the Left. To put this in perspective, college professors donate to Democratic candidates over Republican ones by a ratio of 95-1,Yet, there are notable holdouts in the academic world, among them the aptly named Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, just outside Washington, D.C.

As one may guess from its namesake, Scalia Law is well known for its libertarian and conservative professoriate and for its resistance to unyielding pressure to change that outlook. Unfortunately, all of this is now under assault by a group of students themselves.

This week, Scalia Law’s Student Bar Association (SBA), in contravention of its supposed non-partisanship, issued a letter to the school’s administration, copying the entire student body, which contained a set of radical, Black Lives Matter-esque demands. The letter demanded, among other things, full tuition scholarships for all black students, affirmative action programs, special funding for “diverse” clubs to bring speakers of “intersectional identities”, and mandatory “race equity” trainings for all faculty, staff, and students.

The idea that students should get scholarships based on their race, or that applicants of certain racial backgrounds should get preference in admissions, is offensive and goes against everything the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s fought to achieve. When Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” I cannot imagine that he was envisioning a nation in which some people receive full tuition scholarships based on their skin color while others do not.

However, on today’s campuses, the modern Left feels comfortable demanding administrations divide people by race and treat them differently on that basis. They demand that students, faculty, and staff be forced to attend lectures, hosted by the woke, on “race equity”. Instead of diversity of thought and intellectual rigor, these programs are designed to promote conformity and to ensure everyone is forced to parrot the BLM narrative.

And make no mistake, the organized BLM is not primarily about ensuring that black lives are valued. If it were, it wouldn’t be remotely controversial. As per the BLM website, BLM wishes to disrupt the institution of the family, and its founders [brag about being trained Marxists](https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/).

Beyond that, they have been dogged by persistent issues of antisemitism and have openly called for the defunding of police nationwide. BLM is a radical organization hiding behind a respectable-sounding name. Here at Scalia Law, the Student Bar Association has openly embraced this radicalism, and is now demanding that the administration do so as well.

The SBA purports to act on behalf of all students and all student organizations. But in fact, conservative-leaning organizations on campus (and there are many) were not consulted about, or even made aware of, the letter before it was released. When challenged about the lack of “inclusion,” the SBA purports to have been “unable” to contact these organizations. That is specious at best, since it had no trouble contacting the leftist organizations on campus and also possess a list of the contact info for each club’s leadership.

When confronted on this obvious lie, the SBA then claimed that they did not coordinate the letter, but merely signed it (as the first signatory), delivered it to the faculty and administration, and then distributed it to the entire student body. They then stated “[we] understand that you don’t agree with the decision the SBA voted on and approved, but it was voted on and passed.” They essentially admit that they have no interest in representing the student body as a whole, and are instead interested in pushing the radical agenda represented by the clubs that signed this demand letter, to the complete exclusion of dissenting voices. To anyone who dissented or disagreed, the message was loud and clear: SBA does not care.

When contacted, the drafters of the letter made it even more clear that these conservative clubs would not have any input on the content of the letter, that no revisions would be made, and that the demands would not be altered in any way to broaden the base of support or build unity among the student body. They offered all clubs a “take it or leave it offer” to sign the letter as written after publication, expressing total indifference to the criticisms of their peers and expressing no willingness to bridge the divide.

Scalia Law is not new to these sort of demands or controversies. Last year, some students from George Mason University demanded that the law school terminate its relationship with Justice Kavanaugh, and years before, students protested the naming of the school after Justice Scalia. Thankfully, on both of those occasions, the administration reminded the students that the Dean and the faculty run the Law School and did not cave to temper tantrums from radical elements of the student body. We can only hope that the administration keeps its resolve now, and refuses to bow to the mob.

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Jacob Meckler is a second year J.D. Candidate at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps (2014-2018).

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Dean Butler,

We are calling for you to unequivocally stand among other leaders and acknowledge that Black lives matter. We call for

you to acknowledge the systemic racism within our own law school, and pledge to begin work immediately to shape

Scalia Law into a firmly anti-racist institution. We call for you to lead our new Dean and the entirety of our

administration, faculty, and student body to show the world that we can do better. The next generation of lawyers must

work to dismantle systemic racism in this country and you are responsible for leading them. We know we can do it, but

we need your help. The only way we can move onward and upward is as a community.

Below is a list of tangible action items to uplift our school. All requests pertaining to student resources, including

scholarships, apply to all classes of law students: JD (full and part time), JM, and LLM. We ask that you and your

administration review this list and answer with a concrete timeline for the achievement of these items. We request that a

public response to this statement come no later than July 24, 2020.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School publish a comprehensive statement of all current diversity

initiatives being undertaken by various offices, including efforts to recruit students and faculty.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School hire a third party to conduct a campus climate survey giving

students the opportunity to share their voices and address their experiences.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School maintain a public record of all informal and formal reports of

racial discrimination and harassment reported to the administration. This record should respect

confidentiality, and need only state that the report existed and whether any action was taken to resolve it.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School create and publish specific procedures within its own

administration for responding to reports of discrimination, harassment, and misconduct.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School inform students of the work and mission of the Classroom

Dialogue Committee and expand the Committee to add student representatives.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School recruit more Black students and faculty with the goal of fair

representation of Black individuals.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School provide space for a multicultural center where students from

all backgrounds can feel welcome and heard.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School hire specialists to conduct mandatory trainings on race equity

for faculty, administration, and students.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School raise funds and provide full tuition merit scholarships for

diverse candidates, particularly for Black students and all students of color, with good standing as the

only requirement for renewal.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School provide funding separate from SBA funds to student

organizations representing diverse communities to host speakers of intersectional identities.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School collaborate with GMU Counseling and Psychological

Services to provide mental health services on the Arlington Campus tailored for students experiencing

racial trauma and discriminatory educational and career barriers.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School involve diverse law students in recruitment efforts, both onand off-campus.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School host educational and networking events focused on diversity

in the legal field.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School provide training for a member of Career Services to

specialize in connecting students to diverse mentors and diversity related opportunities.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School designate a Director of Diversity Services and task that

person with outreach to Scalia Law’s diverse students and diversity organizations.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School host a monthly forum open for all students to address

concerns about racism and other diversity and inclusion issues. These forums should always be attended

by the Dean, other administrators, and faculty representatives.

We ask that the Antonin Scalia Law School begins to specifically address race at the school and stop

avoiding discussions around anti-racism work. By only using the words “Diversity and Inclusion,” you

are side-stepping the issue of race. We must all confront racism together, openly, honestly, and with a

spirit of learning.

Dean Butler, we ask that you implement these tangible solutions and work with us towards a better environment

for the George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School. We ask that you help us lead Scalia Law to prominence not

only in rankings, but among peer law schools as the leader in transformative change. If we work together, we can

and we will do better.

We look forward to receiving your response and embarking on a collaborative journey onward and upward.

Collectively,

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Mason Multicultural Alliance Immigration Law Society Animal Legal Defense Fund

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Monday, June 29, 2020

**2L: *Radical Left Makes Inroads At Scalia Law School Under Banner Of Black Lives Matter***

By Paul Caron

Jacob Meckler (J.D. 2022, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University), Radical Left Makes Inroads at Scalia Law School Under Banner of Black Lives Matter:

It will come as no surprise to most Americans that academia has been lost largely to the Left. To put this in perspective, college professors donate to Democratic candidates over Republican ones by a ratio of 95-1,Yet, there are notable holdouts in the academic world, among them the aptly named Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, just outside Washington, D.C.

As one may guess from its namesake, Scalia Law is well known for its libertarian and conservative professoriate and for its resistance to unyielding pressure to change that outlook. Unfortunately, all of this is now under assault by a group of students themselves.

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This week, Scalia Law’s Student Bar Association (SBA), in contravention of its supposed non-partisanship, issued a letter to the school’s administration, copying the entire student body, which contained a set of radical, Black Lives Matter-esque demands. The letter demanded, among other things, full tuition scholarships for all black students, affirmative action programs, special funding for “diverse” clubs to bring speakers of “intersectional identities”, and mandatory “race equity” trainings for all faculty, staff, and students. ...

Scalia Law is not new to these sort of demands or controversies. Last year, some students from George Mason University demanded that the law school terminate its relationship with Justice Kavanaugh, and years before, students protested the naming of the school after Justice Scalia. Thankfully, on both of those occasions, the administration reminded the students that the Dean and the faculty run the Law School and did not cave to temper tantrums from radical elements of the student body. We can only hope that the administration keeps its resolve now, and refuses to bow to the mob.

Update: Above the Law, Students Make Diversity Demands At Law School — Guess Which Group Didn’t Sign On?:

The student does claim that the Federalist Society simply had no idea that this letter was coming — which others dispute — but then blows any political capital this exclusion might have carried when he doesn’t suggest that the group would’ve signed on if given an opportunity. Rather, he bemoans that FedSoc wasn’t given an opportunity to gut the letter to the point of meaninglessness, which is certainly a kind of cooperative effort. But this gripe gets to the heart of the whole conservative complaint about race and diversity. If white people aren’t at the center of everything, the snowflake alarms go off at FedSoc headquarters. It’s discriminating based on race to recruit students for not being white, while it’s not discriminating when Black students get harassed at the library… for not being white. Here, students are allowed to have opinions… as long as the white people get to edit them for content.

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Dear L. Burke. if you do not understand that a Confederate general such as Lee--who swore allegiance to the United States, was trained in the U.S. military, and then left to lead Confederate soldiers to kill U.S. troops in a civil war attempting to preserve the South's slave economy--was a traitor, then I suspect you have a dim understanding of the word. And as far as emotional outbursts go, your use of ad hominem attack, as evidenced by your own "over-wrought, over-emotional word salad," demonstrates better than anything that you are not interested in substantive dialogue.

Posted by: Linda Beale | Jul 5, 2020 2:34:12 PM

@ Linda Beale:

"From rejecting government monuments to Confederate traitors".

I am surprised that I should have to explain fine distinctions and nuances of meaning to a law professor, but apparently I do. So: "treason" versus "secession" versus "rebellion" and "revolution". Please learn the differences between these terms before inflicting your over-wrought, over-emotional word salads upon us again. Thank you.

Posted by: Rob T. | Jun 30, 2020 2:33:20 PM

It's funny how Democrats are in charge of all the institutions that are supposedly systemically raciss.

Posted by: Anon | Jun 30, 2020 11:38:49 AM

Ted Seto is correct. It is not "radical" to recognize the harm done by 400 years of slavery, Jim Crow, and systemic racism in this country and to question the institutions and policies that have made the continuation of that status quo possible. From rejecting government monuments to Confederate traitors to questioning the maintenance of militarized police forces that protect killers who intentionally snuff out African American lives to removing institutionalized honoring of those whose underlying philosophies rested on white male supremacy--all these are actions that any thinking person in this country should recognize as necessary merely to start to remove the stain of systemic racism and genderism.

Posted by: Linda Beale | Jun 30, 2020 10:35:12 AM

I don’t think it’s unusual for students to make “demands,” the school doesn’t have to agree to them

Posted by: Mike Livingston | Jun 30, 2020 3:14:06 AM

Makes sense. In a free society, conservatives and libertarians don't keep people out of the discussion just because they disagree.

On the other side of the aisle, well, not so much...

Posted by: MM | Jun 29, 2020 6:55:21 PM

In the Hunger Games, President Snow uses the term "radical" to discredit those who oppose his rule. Is it really "radical" to believe that people of all races should be treated equally?

Posted by: Ted Seto | Jun 29, 2020 1:15:08 PM

Yes, students often make demands, and too often schools yield to them. Probably one reason is that faculty are reluctant to openly oppose them by presenting arguments against giving in.

Perhaps faculty at the Antonin Scalia Law School will speak out, as I did, when students made outrageous demands on my University, George Washington.

In summary, a small band of GWU students, upset by Trump’s election, created a long list of completely irrational demands, including protection from various things which allegedly upset them.

While many campuses have taken such demands seriously, mine didn’t - perhaps because I went on the offensive on TV, in the media, and on the Internet to ridicule them.

WATCH ON TV - DC University Professor Calls Student Protest Groups' Demands 'Political Correctness Run Amok' [http://bit.ly/2h8Xg0n]

See, e.g., DC Professor Calls Student Protesters' Demands 'Political Correctness Run Amok'

http://fxn.ws/2hefLVj

George Washington University Students Freak Out At Trump Election

Inmates Trying to Take Over GWU Asylum in DC

http://bit.ly/2gFGfe3

HERE’S A LONGER PIECE FOR [ONLY] THOSE WHO MIGHT WANT MORE INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND:

In what may be an encouraging sign, administrators at George Washington University [GWU] did not yield to a single one of the so-called "demands" made by a coalition of more than a dozen student groups.

Indeed, rather than doing what so many other universities have done in similar situations - grant a few requests, negotiate with the student activists, hold campus-wide meetings, form study committees, etc., - GWU simply ignored the demands and the letter containing them; as did the overwhelming majority of GWU students, the official student newspaper, the student government, etc.

In other words, holding it all up to ridicule seemingly worked.

Maybe it took such outrageous demands - e.g., that GWU take students’ tuition money and divert it to fund off-campus projects having nothing to do with higher education such as job training, community centers, and facilities for the homeless - to finally cause a change in the campus climates over the past several years which have led to university presidents, deans, and faculty having to resign, the establishment of new and expensive programs of dubious educational value, changes in the names of buildings and even symbols, etc.

Perhaps even more important was the bizarre and totally irrational basis for these demands.

The students' so-called argument or justification is that having GWU police provide security on campus is an "act of violence" because police in general have been favorable to Donald Trump; "placing us in these officers’ care is an act of violence," the students opined.

Given the total lack of any validity or rationality to their argument - which also demanded, for some unexplained reason, that the university recognize "white supremacy” - it seems like they are behaving more like inmates in an asylum seeking to take it over than as students at a major university making a rational presentation for much needed changes.

Unfortunately, as ridiculous and as illogical as their premise and demands were, similar situations have occurred at other institutions of higher education and their law schools where the bizarre and virtually unbelievable claims of their students were taken seriously and actually acted upon.

At some law schools, students claimed to be so traumatized by Trump's election that they could no longer function. The schools responded by cancelling classes and postponing exams.

At one top law school, Michigan, its "embedded psychologist" offered the law students Legos, play dough, and bubbles to help them cope with the alleged "trauma" of Trump's election.

Some schools did the same when students claimed to be traumatized by the shooting hundreds of miles away in Ferguson.

The response to this new letter to GWU, with the new demands, was that virtually everyone - the University, the student newspaper, the student government, etc, - simply ignored it.

The only ones who didn't ignore it were the media, who excoriated the students for the total irrationality of the rationale for the demands, and for the very demands themselves.

Headlines screamed "Inmates Trying to Take Over GWU Asylum in DC," "GWU Students Claim Use of Pro-Trump Campus Cops Is an ‘Act of Violence’," and "GWU Students: Campus Police Protection an ‘Act of Violence’ - Because Cops Support Trump."

One called it one of "Three of the Most Absurd Campus Reactions to Trump’s Win," saying: "In one of the GWU students’ most bizarre demands, they called on the university to ‘protect its students’ by not forcing them, in an ‘act of violence,’ to remain under the protection of campus police."

Let’s see what the Antonin Scalia Law School faculty do.

Posted by: LawProf John Banzhaf | Jun 29, 2020 10:53:32 AM

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