United States Justice Foundation
United States Justice Foundation (“USJF”) is a non-profit public interest, legal action organization dedicated to instruct, inform and educate the public on, and to litigate, significant legal issues confronting America. USJF seeks to advance the original understanding of constitutional jurisprudence in the judicial arena. USJF promotes important public policy matters and the advancement of conservative principles in the judicial arena, as well as supports property, civil and human rights.
In recent years, USJF has been involved in public interest litigation. In 2024, USJF filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson, 601 U.S. 100, a voting rights case, where several secretaries of state tried to unlawfully remove Donald Trump off 2024 primary election ballots. USJF joined the successful argument that states could not determine eligibility for federal office, and thus preserving the right of Americans to vote freely for candidates of their choice.
USJF returned to the Supreme Court later in 2024, filing an amicus brief in Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, a case regarding presidential immunity. USJF was again on the winning side, joining the argument that presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their core constitutional duties, and at least presumptive immunity for official acts within the outer perimeter of their official responsibility.
USJF was a successful petitioner in Lacy v. Hall (Case No. 30-2024-01402208-CU-WM-CJC), a 2024 case where USJF asked the Court to compel that biased language be removed from a ballot measure submitted to citizens and voters of the city of Santa Ana that would have amended the city’s charter to allow non-citizens to vote in the city’s municipal elections. USJF then supported the successful election campaign to reject the non-citizen voting measure.
In 2023, USJF was a successful plaintiff before Judge David O. Carter, seeking government records under the Freedom of Information Act in Lacy v. U.S. Dep’t of State, No. SA CV 22-1065-DOC, 2023 WL 4317659 (C.D. Cal. May 3, 2023). USJF submitted a FOIA request to the State Department, intending to force the disclosure of Hunter Biden’s secret emails with Anthony Blinken while the latter was deputy secretary of state. USJF won its case along with an award of attorney fees from the Biden State Department, and the same emails were subsequently disclosed on Biden’s infamous laptop, thus validating our lawsuit.
USJF successfully argued in 2022 in Lacy v. City and County of San Francisco (CPF22517714) that non-citizens should not be allowed to vote in municipal elections in San Francisco. That decision was unfortunately overturned on appeal.
USJF is continuing its work in public interest litigation. This past March USJF filed an amicus brief in Washington v. Trump (25-807), before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in support of the Trump Administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. Our argument centers on the fact that children of temporary residents and those who enter the country illegally are not citizens of the United States because they are not subject to its jurisdiction in the manner the 14th Amendment requires.
Over the past several years, USJF has strongly opposed the DC Statehood movement. USJF has engaged in allowing grass-roots opposition to legislation to make the District of Columbia a state, including producing radio and social media ads in Maine, Montana, and New Hampshire.
USJF also conducts and supports research and education, disseminating information about important legal and public policy issues through reports and articles available on the organization’s website. USJF mails over 100,000 petitions a year to the public, to inform them of important public policy issues, such as the importance of ensuring election integrity and voting rights, and asking them to send their signed petitions to members of Congress and other government officials.
