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., was for 25 years a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation. He is a public policy analyst specializing in health care, entitlements and energy issues and is the author of numerous public policy studies. He is past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists.

For nine years Dr. Matthews was executive director of the Washington, DC-based Council for Affordable Health Insurance, a health insurance trade association. While he was executive director, National Journal recognized the Council as one of the most effective health policy organizations in Washington.

The Religious Liberty Commission will hold its fifth hearing to discuss religious liberty issues related to anti-Semitism, as well as religious liberty issues in the private sector.

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First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the City of Columbus demanding local resident James Anthony be allowed to share his life-affirming messages to women near the Columbus Women’s Health Organization after being told “you ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution begins with what George Will once called the five most beautiful words in the English language: Congress shall make no law.

If we are guilty of ‘stealing land,’ so is nearly everyone else in history, including Native Americans.

President Trump has closed the border, making comprehensive immigration reform legislation possible, but it needs to be bipartisan and include a path to citizenship for Dreamers, a functioning immi…

When The Free Press started reporting on gender ideology, it was a third rail. Today, the tide has turned, writes Emily Yoffe.

They will give people more control over their medical dollars and increase access to affordable policies.