Jeff Mateer is the Chief Legal Officer of First Liberty Institute, where he serves as a member of the executive leadership team and oversees and directs First Liberty’s legal operations, including its litigation, media/communications, and external affairs teams. He rejoined First Liberty Institute in October 2020 after serving as First Assistant Attorney General of Texas from March 2016 through October 2020.

Jeff has served in the legal field for over 30 years, and in addition to having received an A-V rating by Martindale-Hubbell, Jeff has been honored as a Texas Rising Star and Texas Super Lawyer. He received his undergraduate education at Dickinson College, where he graduated with honors in 1987, and his legal education at Southern Methodist University, where he graduated with honors in 1990. While in law school, he served as an editor of the law review. He is licensed to practice law by the state of Texas and is admitted to practice before all Texas State and Federal District Courts, the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).

He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.

Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.

By: Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford - wsj.com - May 16, 2023 The left was able for decades to get through the courts, including the Supreme Court, what it couldn’t get through Congress. Today, however, liberals ...

Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me 'Cause I'm the taxman Yeah, I'm the taxman These are the opening lyrics of the 1966 Beatles song “Taxman,” written ...

House Republicans are holding firm as they negotiate a deal with President Biden to raise the debt ceiling—a small miracle for the GOP—and one sticking point is work requirements in welfare.

A recent tussle over the Affordable Care Act’s (i.e., Obamacare) requirement that private health insurance cover preventive health care at no out-of-pocket cost raises a long-running policy debate: How effective is preventive health care in ...

In April 2021, First Liberty Institute launched Supreme Coup, a comprehensive, multi-faceted digital campaign to educate millions of Americans on court-packing.

Supreme Coup is the first and only national campaign designed specifically to educate and activate Americans regarding court reform. No other nonprofit organization in the country besides First Liberty Institute engaged in such a concerted and deliberate effort.

By: The Editorial Board - wsj.com - May 17, 2023 Three times in a row, since 2018, Republicans have been disappointed on election night in November, in large part because they lost the suburbs. More ...

The percentage of of adults in the United States who indicate receiving a diagnosis of depression during their lifetime has risen to 29 percent, a substantial increase of almost 10 percentage points compared to the ...