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…

… 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…

… 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…

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,…

… Now, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asking the judges to strike down the at-sea monitoring rule. The appeals court initially upheld the rule in 2021, relying on the Chevron deference. With the deference dead, though, the NCLA claims…

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., is due to make a decision in a case that could shed light on improper behavior within the SEC’s Enforcement Division that led to the dismissal of scores of cases, include many that had been prosecuted for years. The issue at the heart of the case is the so-called…