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SCOTUS Petitioner Says Newman’s Absence from the CAFC Deprived It of a Fair Shot in Eligibility Case

October 23, 2024
A recent petition to the U.S. Supreme Court urges the Justices to take up the question of whether Judge Pauline Newman’s effective removal from the court by her peers is constitutional. It further questions “whether such an act undermines the impartiality and integrity of patent appeals adjudication by depriving the patent owner of a fair hearing before a duly…
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In honor of Free Speech Week, end all regulatory gag orders

October 23, 2024
… Among the 40+ agencies with ALCs and 50+ adjudicating bodies in the federal government, the SEC and CFTC are the only two known entities that can gag its opponents. The SEC’s tendency to issue gag orders is so unpopular that even prominent billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban have denounced them as unfair…
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New SEC database violates privacy and freedom of association

October 13, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission is collecting personal information about the buyers and sellers of every single stock trade in the United States and is holding that information for the perusal of thousands of bureaucrats and any hacker who is able to break into the database. This database, called the Consolidated Audit Trail, collects information such as the buyer’s and seller’s address, date…
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Attacks on Agency In-House Judges Heat Up, Blunting Enforcement

October 8, 2024
… For companies and individuals defending against agency enforcement actions, the harm can be “very real and very personal,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal advocacy group that’s frequently involved in suing the federal government. “There’s something deeply insulting in an agency moving forward when constitutional violations are actively…
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Federal judge issues temporary injunction against latest Biden student loan plan

October 8, 2024
… In August 2023, Campus Reform reported about a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s student loan cancellation initiative filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA). “The U.S. Department of Education’s actions violate the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause, which grants Congress near-exclusive authority to cancel debt owed to the Treasury,” the NCLA stated at the time. The…
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Proven social media censorship suggests hidden gold mine of federal coercion, plaintiffs tell court

September 20, 2024
The Supreme Court set a high bar in June for states and individuals to challenge government-tinged censorship of social media, reversing a preliminary injunction against the feds because platforms were already suppressing plaintiffs’ posts when public officials targeted them. Censored doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Aaron Kheriaty, activist Jill Hines and Gateway Pundit publisher Jim Hoft,…
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