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May 20, 2024

National Small Business United v. Department of the Treasury

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AAF Files Amicus Brief in National Small Business United v. Department of the Treasury

Advancing American Freedom led an amicus brief with over 13 other amici in National Small Business United v. Department of the Treasury, in which the Eleventh Circuit is considering a district court decision that held unconstitutional the Corporate Transparency Act which requires certain companies to disclose information about their beneficial owners to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

“The federal government of the United States increasingly seeks to make itself the custodian of unimaginable amounts of information about the American people, a power well beyond its constitutional design as a limited and enumerated government,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “Corporate Transparency Act is beyond the power granted to Congress in the Commerce Clause of Article I, even as modified by the Necessary and Proper Clause. Such structural limitations of the Constitution, not the Bill of Rights, must be the primary source of security for the rights of the people.”

You can read the amicus brief here.

Boston Parents Coalition for Academic Excellence v. School Committee of City of Boston

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AAF Leads Amicus Brief Defending Boston Students from Racial Discrimination

Advancing American Freedom led an amicus brief with over 26 other amici in Boston Parents Coalition for Academic Excellence v. School Committee of City of Boston, in which students are challenging a change in policy at a competitive Boston high school that was designed to increase racial balance at the school and which has had the inevitable impact of decreasing admissions for Asian American students.

“Schools around the country are trying to find ways to continue discriminating against applicants for admissions based on race even after the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard in which the Court recognized that discriminating based on race in school admissions is a violation of that fundamental principle,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “Such discrimination is contrary to one of the core principles of American government; equal treatment before the law.”

You can read the full brief here.