Mark Chenoweth New Civil Liberties Alliance President and General Counsel Legal observers recognized Chenoweth and his team for leading the court battle to overturn the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ bump-stock ban. He hailed it as a victory in restraining the power of a federal agency to redefine a law’s scope. Education: Yale; University…

A public-interest law firm filed a lawsuit challenging the president’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, at least the fifth such lawsuit since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs… Pacific Legal Foundation isn’t alone. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, Tranel Law, and Liberty Justice Center have filed similar suits. California also filed suit. Arizona and Oregon did…

The Trump administration’s trade war has prompted chaos and countermeasures across the globe, but a potent counterattack has emerged in the courts in recent weeks — and in the long run, it could fatally undermine President Donald Trump’s unprecedented global tariff regime. California Gov. Gavin Newsom was the latest to join the fray with a lawsuit in…

When President Trump announced in February that he was imposing stiff new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China, he said his power to do so came from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, a law passed by Congress in 1977. Two months later he again invoked that statute as he unveiled…

… The Kansas Justice Institute — like the Sentinel, owned by the Kansas Policy Institute —  along with the Goldwater Institute and American Dream Legal, have filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a lawsuit by James Harper and the New Civil Liberties Alliance challenging the third-party doctrine. The case is Harper v. O’Donnell.  The…

A group of American companies filed a lawsuit that argues the Trump administration doesn’t have the authority to issue unfettered tariffs without congressional approval. The nonprofit Liberty Justice Center filed the suit Monday in the U.S. Court of International Trade on behalf of five businesses that each claim the tariffs directly threaten their finances, and in…