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Justices Ask US To Respond To IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Case

March 31, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the federal government Monday to weigh in on a cryptocurrency investor’s challenge to the IRS’ seizure of his account records, a request that followed a spate of support for the investor, including by attorneys general and Elon Musk’s X Corp…
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New Civil Liberties Alliance Urges High Court To Hear FINRA Constitutionality Case

March 28, 2025
The New Civil LIberties Alliance (NCLA) filed an amicus curiae brief i support of a broker’s petition for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to address the constitutionality of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as well as what constitutes an irreperable injury for the purpose of a preliminary injunction…
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Doctor Defends Exam Saying Judge Newman Is Fit To Serve

March 25, 2025
A neurosurgeon who examined Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman and declared her fit to serve on the bench pushed back Tuesday on criticism of his evaluation made by doctors retained by the appeals court’s other judges, who have suspended the 97-year-old jurist…
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OPINION: Will SCOTUS Help Trump Tame the Leviathan?

March 24, 2025
As President Trump and Elon Musk strive, from the Executive branch, to tame the federal leviathan, a case coming up at the Supreme Court offers the judiciary an opportunity to aid the noble cause. The dispute centers on the “Universal Service Fund,” paid for in part by a tax on Americans’ phone bills. On Wednesday,…
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Chevron Law Firm Asks Court To Delay CPSC Rule On Infant Loungers

March 21, 2025
A little-noticed rule from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) would harm countless small manufacturers of infant supplies if allowed to go into effect this May, nonprofit law firm the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) contends…
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Trump moved to abolish the Education Department: What comes next

March 20, 2025
… Speaking on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast this month, New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) President Mark Chenoweth said that if Trump’s “trying to, for example, shut down the Department of Education without a vote of Congress, he just doesn’t have that power to go that far unilaterally.” …
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