The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a renewed petition seeking to end its so-called post-settlement gag orders, with the petitioners arguing that the agency’s rule “has gagged countless enforcement targets in perpetuity.” …

More than two dozen Republican lawmakers are asking the Supreme Court to take up challenges to rulings upholding former President Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the Oregon-California border, and rein in presidential uses of the Antiquities Act of 1906…

… In July 2023, ED announced borrowers who had made the required 20 or 25 years of qualifying payments on income-driven repayment plans would be notified of their debt cancellation and 30 days later their debt servicers would begin discharging their loans. ED was expected to review borrowers’ accounts every two months. However, in August…

… John J. Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance represents the petitioners. Elizabeth B. Prelogar of the U.S. Department of Justice represents the federal defendants.

… Other witnesses during the hearing included CEO of New Civil Liberties Alliance Mark Chenoweth, inaugural litigation director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Alex Abdo and Council to Modernize Governance Senior Fellow Gary Lawkowski.

… Also highlighted during Wednesday’s hearing was Missouri v. Biden, an ongoing court case to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court that documents efforts by the Biden administration to coerce Big Tech platforms to engage in similar censorship activities. In his testimony, Mark Chenoweth, president of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), noted how the…