America First Legal

Stephen Miller, now a senior adviser to President Trump, launched the group on 6 April 2021. Gene Hamilton, a former Justice Department official, is its vice-president. It is a non-profit based in Washington and has sued over diversity programmes, immigration rules and federal agencies' records.

It argues that states rarely check voter registrations against federal immigration records, so a federal suit was the only check available. On that view the Justice Department's withdrawn California suit left the question untested.

It also argued that Judge Denise Casper's ruling reached too far by voiding all of Trump's 31 March voting executive order, including a review of state voter files.