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: James Freeman - wsj.com - August 20, 2024 New Mason-Dixon poll finds a supermajority saying an independent judiciary protects liberties. The good news is that most Americans still oppose political assaults on the integrity, ...

Short on cash and losing traction with voters, Mr. Kennedy intends to make a speech about his political future on Friday.  

Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic policies are not yet fully known, but her platitudes suggest a focus on affordable housing, health care, child care, paid leave and the Green New Deal,

Vice President Kamala Harris' economic plan brings the destructive Argentinian Peronism to the United States of America.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is being urged to stick with a general positive message and provide more details on her policies after the election, as many Democrats believe this i… Source: Kamala Harris's economic ...

Homeland Security's internal watchdog says it has uncovered an "urgent issue" with how immigration officials handle cases involving unaccompanied migrant children. Source: DHS watchdog warns of 'urgent issue' after immigration officials allegedly lose track of ...

A recent DOE hire, Sneha Nair, advocates for nuclear disarmament and "queering nuclear weapons" as part of DEI efforts she views as crucial to bolstering U.S. national security.

School choice is a 2024 election issue and we need to hear more about it from candidates seeking public office.