The confirmation hearing for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is set to start next Monday, October 12. We interview Mark Chenoweth, Executive Director of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, on how the process might play out as well as Judge Barrett’s judicial approach. Watch the full interviewTweetShareShare0 Shares

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a decision upholding reduced Medicaid reimbursement for children’s hospitals, turning away a chance to revisit the so-called Chevron deference — the longstanding practice of having judges defer to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. In a brief order, the high court voted not to scrutinize a…

Free-market think tanks urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to curtail the Federal Trade Commission’s traditional reliance on monetary sanctions as a weapon against bad marketplace behavior, including consumer fraud and anti-competitive conduct. Justices will soon hear oral arguments in two paired cases from the Seventh and Ninth Circuits in order to tackle a…

An executive order recently signed into effect by U.S. President Donald Trump that prevents evictions until December 31 for Americans directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenged by a lawsuit filed in federal court. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a public interest pro bono law firm, has filed the suit on behalf of…

On the Keller at Large MASSter List podcast, Jon Keller recently shared his personal hot-take on the Desrosiers v. Baker case that I argued before the Supreme Judicial Court on September 11th. Quoting a character from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist who famously declared “the law is an ass,” Mr. Keller said, “sometimes that applies to…