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Kaitlyn Schiraldi

Staff Attorney


Kaitlyn Schiraldi is Staff Attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Prior to joining NCLA, Kaitlyn worked at Mountain States Legal Foundation where she litigated to defend citizens from the government’s unwieldy power, filed amicus briefs, drafted comments on agency regulations, and was a frequent webinar panelist.

Kaitlyn graduated magna cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law and holds an undergraduate degree, with honors, from The University of Texas at Austin.

Kaitlyn is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and resides outside of Nashville. She previously served on the Nashville Federalist Society’s Young Lawyers Committee, helping plan local events where the brightest legal minds come speak. In her downtime, you can find her spending time with her husband and infant daughter, searching for antique treasures, listening to live music, or pretending to be a coffee sommelier.   

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in Tennessee and select federal jurisdictions.

Institutional Review Boards: A University-Prescribed Chokehold on the First Amendment

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi July 7, 2025
Blogs
First Amendment violations are not always as blatant as the government colluding with social media companies to shut down unpopular speech or forcing students to remove armbands signaling their aversion to the Vietnam War. Some free speech violations lurk behind ivy-covered walls. In one of the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s latest cases, Issak v. University…
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Our Agencies Are Failing Us: Why A Mother’s Discernment Cannot Be Replaced by Fallible Agencies

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi February 12, 2025
Blogs
American citizens should not allow federal agencies to replace their own discernment and instinct by blindly believing that regulations reduce risk—the government will never be a benevolent parens patriae. Skepticism of the government is a natural result of being in the public interest legal profession, but entering motherhood heightened this distrust. The sanctity of protecting…
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A Constitutional Lawyer’s Dream: Tightening the Intelligible Principle Test

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi September 20, 2024
Blogs
The Roberts Court has an appetite for taking decades-old, unworkable, judge-made doctrines and injecting the Constitution into the fold. The Justices no longer turn a blind eye to unconstitutional “tests” in the name of stare decisis, thereby becoming complicit in weakening the Constitution, but rather scrutinize the decisions of their brethren through the lens of…
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