by nclaadmin | Oct 21, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has submitted a public comment opposing the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s proposed regulation, Revisions to Safety Standard for Infant Bath Seats, on the basic premise that the law must be freely...
by nclaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog
Ah, the games bureaucrats play. They most often resemble Twister, of course: How well can you contort yourself to follow an agency’s myriad of guidance and regulations? But many of their games are more insidious, implicating fundamental rights including freedoms of...
by nclaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog
The Trump Administration has taken an important step in overhauling the administrative state by tackling the rampant abuse of agency “guidance.” Instead of issuing formal rules, agencies have come to rely on informal interpretations, advice, statements of policy and...
by nclaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog
The two executive orders issued by the White House—“Bringing Guidance out of the Darkness,” and “Transparency and Fairness”—promise to start clearing the fog of faulty guidance documents issued by federal administrative agencies in the so-called Washington D.C....
by nclaadmin | Oct 11, 2019 | Opinion, Peggy Little
President Trump’s two executive orders bring federal agency guidance out of the darkness and promote transparency and fairness. Peggy Little, senior litigation counsel with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, says they should be cheered by Americans across political...
