…”They are very much afraid that if they continue to make the sort of forceful comments they used to regularly make, it would lead them to be charged,” their lawyer Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said at Friday’s oral arguments…

…Newman’s lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance on Thursday released a report by Dr. Regina Carney, a Miami-based forensic psychiatrist, that described Newman as an “unusually cognitively intact 96-year-old woman” with “no evidence of current substantial medical, psychiatric, or cognitive disability.”…

…That filing, in turn, prompted two briefs filed on Wednesday in support of Alpine, one from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that frequently represents defendants targeted in SEC proceedings; and the other from Barr, now at Torridon Law, and Francisco, a partner at Jones Day. Their brief is on behalf of the American Free Enterprise…

…Also this week, the Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in which Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones called Newman “a brilliant, capable jurist” and criticized the committee’s probe as “inexplicable.” The neurologist who examined Newman told Bloomberg Law last week that the bombshell 111-page report, released Aug. 4, included a line describing part of his examination…

…The case had attracted national attention. Cleveland County appealed the 4th Circuit’s 2022 ruling to the US Supreme Court. Sixteen state governments filed a brief supporting the county’s request. So did groups called the International Municipal Lawyers Association and the New Civil Liberties Alliance…

…A federal judge in Michigan recently dismissed a challenge against Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan from a legal group, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, for lacking standing, per Axios. Biden followed up that dismissal by touting his decision to push ahead with student loan forgiveness anyway, claiming that he would find another path to student…