(Alexandria, Virginia) GLA President Jason Poblete was interviewed on EWTN on religious liberty issues in Latin America and the recent elections in the region.

Alexandria, Virginia - As part of a new phase of advocacy efforts to help secure the
release of Mr. Jamshid Sharmahd, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin has filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Public Prosecutor (GBA) in Karlsruhe against the Iranian regime. Mr. Sharmahd was kidnapped and falsely accused of crimes he did not commit and GLA has been advising on the family on the case since his abduction in 2020.

(Alexandria, Virginia) The Global Liberty Alliance joined leading conservative organizations in a friend of the court brief in support of Moms for Liberty in Moms for Liberty v Brevard Public Schools.  The effort to file the "friend of the court" brief in this matter was led by Advancing American Freedom.

(Alexandria, Virginia) The Global Liberty Alliance joined over twenty leading conservative organizations supporting a private Christian college in Point Lookout, Missouri, the College of the Ozarks.  The effort to file the "friend of the court" brief in this matter was led by Advancing American Freedom. 

In May 2022, the Global Liberty Alliance Rule of Law and Legal Defense Fund (“the Global Liberty Alliance) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia on behalf of U.S. Air Force Captain Daniel Knick. Capt. Knick sought a religious exemption from the COVID-19 therapeutic mandate. Capt. Knick's request was denied despite several prior medical exemptions.

​The Complaint alleges violations of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Retaliation, and Capt. Knick's right to equal protection of the law and due process as guaranteed under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The complaint is appended at the end of this post.

(Alexandria, Virginia) ​U.S. Air Force Captain Daniel Knick is reluctantly suing several U.S. government officials, including the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Air Force, for requiring him to take a COVID-19 injection despite his deep and sincerely held Christian belief prohibiting the use of vaccines, immunizations, and other medical treatments and procedures. Global Liberty Alliance attorneys represent the officer who has served his country for over ten years and wishes to continue doing so.

(Alexandria, Virginia)  In a letter to the City of Riverside Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson, the Global Liberty Alliance urged Mayor Lock Dawson to sever its Sister City relationship with the City of Jiangmen in the Guangdong Province over the unlawful imprisonment of Mr. Mark Swidan from Texas.

The Global Liberty Alliance (GLA) joined the filing of a merits amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court by Advancing American Freedom (AAF) founder Mike Pence, the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), and 41 additional organizations and individuals in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. In October 2021, GLA was part of a group of amici led by AAF that filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to hear the case.

Alexandria, Virginia - In a letter to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock an international coalition of human rights advocates, including former hostages held by Iran, pressed Germany to do more to secure the release of Mr. Jamshid Sharmahd, a German national and US resident kidnapped in the UAE by Iran.