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Is There Any Remedy When You’re Censored?

By: Philip Hamburger February 29, 2024
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 for bankers and insurers that continued to do business with the NRA.…
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Will SCOTUS Finally Send ATF’s Bump Stock Ban Back To Congress?

By: Mark Chenoweth February 28, 2024
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 regrettable Trump-era rule that the Biden administration continues to defend enthusiastically. Though Garland v. Cargill is…
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How to Defeat the Administrative State

By: Philip Hamburger February 22, 2024
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 executive evasion of legislative and judicial power. The Constitution establishes one mode of making law (in Congress) and one method of…
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Controlling the Language: How Government Puppeteers the Minds of Millions

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi February 9, 2024
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George Orwell ominously warned “but if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” In a nation premised on the ultimate rebellion, the government would never police speech to conform to one narrative, would it? Orwell’s words were not predictors of free speech’s demise, were they?   Unfortunately, like metastatic cancer, the government has indeed been…
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What is the SEC so afraid of?

By: Margaret A. Little February 9, 2024
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.”
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Beyond the Statute: Government "Logic" and the Cargill Case

By: Zhonette Brown February 1, 2024
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Later this month, NCLA’s second of three cases before the Supreme Court this term will be argued, Garland v. Cargill. Like the Relentless v. Department of Commerce case heard last month, Cargill follows an all too familiar plot in the Administrative State: the evolution of a federal agency’s statutory interpretation when the agency decides it…
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