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10th Circuit Upholds Trump Administration’s Bump-Stock Ban
A 10th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the federal government’s ban on bump stock accessories for guns, striking down a Salt Lake City resident’s challenge to the federal ban on the device that allows semiautomatic guns to fire ammunition at the same speed as...
Trump’s Bump Stock Ban Withstands Appeals Court Challenge
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against a Utah gun rights advocate who challenged the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. A three judge panel from the 10th Circuit Court of...
Trump’s Bump Stock Ban Withstands Appeals Court Challenge
The Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, devices that increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms, is likely lawful, a divided Tenth Circuit held Thursday, rejecting a request to temporarily lift the ban. Federal regulators properly interpreted a machine...
So You Made A Joke On Twitter And Now It’s A Federal Case
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, host Ben Domenech is joined by Mark Chenoweth and Adi Dynar, his lawyers at New Civil Liberties Alliance. In 2019, after employees at Vox Media Inc. staged a walkout demanding a new collective bargaining agreement,...
Chamber Backs Oracle’s Bid To Cripple DOL Bias Watchdog
A U.S. Chamber of Commerce-led business coalition has backed Oracle's bid to defang the U.S. Department of Labor unit that sues federal contractors for job bias, accusing it of extorting businesses to settle nine-figure suits it lacks the power to bring. The coalition...
Fever-reading drones just first of a wave of privacy challenges, civil liberties advocates say
Last month, police departments in Daytona Beach and Connecticut unveiled what was initially touted as a potential new tool against a pandemic: drones capable of taking a person’s temperature from 300 feet in the air. Both agencies quickly backtracked on using the...
Fever-detecting Drones and Other Intrusive Practices Grow Under COVID-19
Fever-reading drones, thermal cameras, and other coronavirus policies are part of “a looming wave of intrusive technology and constitutionally questionable measures pushed by governments — from local to state to federal — under the mission of protecting a fearful...
Privacy Advocates Voice Concern Over Fever-Reading Drones
Last month, police departments in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Connecticut unveiled what was initially touted as a potential new tool against a pandemic: drones capable of taking a person’s temperature from 300 feet in the air. Both agencies quickly backtracked on using...
Police Using Drones to Enforce Stay-at-Home Orders
“This is the Daytona Beach Police Department. We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to COVID-19, this park is currently closed.” So says a drone with a loud speaker attached to its top. The coronavirus pandemic has forced police departments in the country and...
Drone Policing in a Pandemic Raises Civil Liberties Concerns
The coronavirus pandemic has prompted police departments to rely increasingly on drone aircraft to enforce social-distancing rules while keeping police officers at a safe distance as well, USA Today reports. Over the past month, several law enforcement agencies have...
Police agencies are using drones to enforce stay-at-home orders, raising concerns among civil rights groups
“This is the Daytona Beach Police Department. We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to COVID-19, this park is currently closed.” So says a drone with a loud speaker attached to its top. The coronavirus pandemic has forced police departments in the country and...
Ben Domenech on The Ben Shapiro Show: Discussing the Joel Fleming v. FDRLST Media, LLC case
Ben Domenech, the co-founder and publisher of The Federalist, comments on the recent developments in the Joel Fleming v. FDRLST Media, LLC case.
Mark Chenoweth on The Fred Holland Show: NLRB has erroneously interpreted the governing statute
NCLA Executive Director and General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, comments on the recent developments in the Joel Fleming v. FDRLST Media, LLC case.
Groups File Petition to End SEC Crackdown on 12b-1 Fees
Four industry and public interest groups filed a petition of rulemaking with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday to end what they see as the agency’s “backdoor regulation” of 12b-1-fees. “It is time for the SEC to stop its troubling, ongoing trend of...
FSI Hits SEC for ‘Regulation by Enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission should end its policies of “regulation by enforcement,” according to a new petition from the Financial Services Institute and several other advocacy organizations. In the petition, they argue the SEC's Share Class Selection...
Big Labor’s Employer Gag Order
Ben Domenech, a right-of-center political commentator and publisher of The Federalist, thought he was having some clean fun when, in response to Vox Media taking steps to counter a union contract campaign, he tweeted a facetious statement telling his employees he...
The National Labor Relations Board Wants To Punish a Conservative Publisher for a Joke About Unions
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered Ben Domenech—publisher of the conservative website The Federalist, and a friend of mine—to take down a June 2019 tweet in which he joked about sending employees who wanted to unionize to work in "the salt mines."...
The National Labor Relations Board Wants To Punish a Conservative Publisher for a Joke About Unions
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered Ben Domenech—publisher of the conservative website The Federalist, and a friend of mine—to take down a June 2019 tweet in which he joked about sending employees who wanted to unionize to work in "the salt mines."...
The National Labor Relations Board Wants To Punish a Conservative Publisher for a Joke About Unions
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered Ben Domenech—publisher of the conservative website The Federalist, and a friend of mine—to take down a June 2019 tweet in which he joked about sending employees who wanted to unionize to work in "the salt mines."...
Ben Domenech on The Buck Sexton Show: Discussing the Joel Fleming v. FDRLST Media, LLC case
Ben Domenech, the co-founder and publisher of The Federalist, comments on the recent developments in the Joel Fleming v. FDRLST Media, LLC case.
Big Labor’s Employer Gag Order
Ben Domenech, a right-of-center political commentator and publisher of The Federalist, thought he was having some clean fun when, in response to Vox Media taking steps to counter a union contract campaign, he tweeted a facetious statement telling his employees he...
Financial industry groups seek SEC rule on 12b-1 fee disclosure
Financial industry trade associations and other interest groups are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to put forth a new rule governing mutual fund fees and stop what the groups deem to be regulation by enforcement. In a rule-making petition filed...
Critics Attack SEC For ‘Guerrilla Governance’ Of Fund Fees
A set of financial services industry advocates petitioned the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday to end what they call the "backdoor regulation" of fees that mutual fund managers pay investment advisers. The petition from groups like the American...
SEC’s Shuttering of Fund Fees – #NeverNeeded and Never Authorized
Over the past month, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and others have pointed to #NeverNeeded regulations that have served no purpose for years and are now hindering our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the economic dislocation that enforced social...
SEC’s Shuttering of Fund Fees – #NeverNeeded and Never Authorized
Over the past month, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and others have pointed to #NeverNeeded regulations that have served no purpose for years and are now hindering our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the economic dislocation that enforced social...