by mconnors | Mar 1, 2019 | Opinion
Written by Mark Chenoweth Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently warned Republicans that if a GOP president can declare a national emergency over a wall on the southern border, the next Democrat president could declare one over gun violence. Her threat envisioned...
by nblazie | Dec 17, 2018 | Opinion
Its unconstitutional 1972 ‘gag rule’ is overdue for repeal. By Peggy Little Published in the Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2018 One of the strongest rules in free-speech law is that the government may not engage in “prior restraint” of speech except in extreme...
by nblazie | Dec 17, 2018 | Opinion
Written by Peggy Little “On Tuesday Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked tough questions to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton, during a banking committee hearing about an opaque form of regulation which has silenced Americans...
by nblazie | Dec 3, 2018 | Opinion
Written by Mark Chenoweth “November 30, 2018 marked an obscure but important one-year anniversary. On that date, shortly after the Solicitor General had filed a brief confessing error in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Securities and Exchange Commission sought to...
by nblazie | Nov 29, 2018 | Opinion
A new lawsuit filed in federal court in California seeks to have further SEC ALJ proceedings against former IA Ray Lucia dismissed, claiming the ALJ system remains unconstitutional because judges can only be fired via the civil service system. The latest legal twist...
by NCLA | Nov 14, 2018 | Opinion
Written by Michael DeGrandis “Groucho Marx once resigned membership from the Friars Club quipping, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” Imagine Groucho’s dismay had the club been compelled to disclose his membership to the...
