Advancing American Freedom Fights for Americans’ Access to Judicial Relief from Government Abuse

Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 47 other amici fighting for the ability of Americans to challenge illegal government action in court. In its amicus brief in Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, AAF showed how a too-restrictive understanding of the Supreme Court’s standing doctrine, the rules that relate to when a case can be brought in federal courts, prevents challenges to legal and direct harms.

“The Supreme Court’s standing doctrine is necessary to ensure that frivolous lawsuits do not proceed, but it too often prevents the courts from holding the other branches of government accountable,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “Chief among those claims kept out of court are those of the unborn who have been denied a voice before federal courts under the current approach to standing. The Court should clarify standing requirements in this case so that lower courts can no longer bar those whose rights are harmed by government policy from judicial relief.”

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