by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Feb 22, 2024 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Our nation faces many problems, including moral decay, religious decline, economic malaise, and military vulnerabilities, but none of these problems are as firmly entrenched as our primary governmental problem, the administrative state. Administrative power is the...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Feb 28, 2024 | Mark Chenoweth, Opinion
The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week regarding the federal ban on bump stocks, a disturbing sequence of events that culminated in a federal agency branding hundreds of thousands of Americans as criminals without congressional action. This is one...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Feb 25, 2024 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
It’s said that for every right there’s a remedy. Three cases before the Supreme Court will test whether that’s true for the freedom of speech. In National Rifle Association v. Vullo, a New York state official took aim at gun advocacy by threatening regulatory hassle...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Jan 4, 2024 | Kara Rollins, Opinion, Zhonette Brown
Recent petitions provide the U.S. Supreme Court a rare opportunity to resolve a conflict between president monument designations under the Antiquities Act and federal land management law. Read the full version, originally published by the Daily Journal on January 4,...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Feb 9, 2024 | Opinion, Peggy Little
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission, urging the Supreme Court to strike down SEC’s “Gag Rule.” Read the full version, originally published by the Daily Journal on February...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Sep 19, 2023 | Opinion, Peggy Little
The Supreme Court’s opinion in Axon Enterprise Inc. v. FTC (Axon/ Cochran) is full of surprises, from its inception—launched despite a seemingly impenetrable barrier of five adverse circuit precedents (hereinafter the SEC ALJ Cases)—to conclusion in a unanimous...