…The “constitutionalists,” whose ranks include the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), and other leading civil liberties organizations, are strongly committed to respecting constitutional constraints and following the policy-making processes set out in the Administrative Procedure Act, with an emphasis on notice and comment rulemaking… Read the full article TweetShareShare0…

…Romeril petitioned the Supreme Court in March, criticizing the SEC’s policy, rooted in its “Gag Rule,” as a “sweeping restriction on freedom of speech” implemented without Congressional authorization. He is represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares

…Has the Tax Cut Ban already affected state tax rates? “It’s difficult to say what the precise counterfactual would be if the Tax Cut Ban had not been included in ARPA,” said Sheng Li, litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed amicus briefs on behalf of the state in all three cases……

A government agency candidly acknowledged the accidental mishandling of potentially privileged documents – this time, its own. On April 5, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement identifying a control deficiency that inadvertently eroded the separation of its enforcement and adjudicatory functions. For now, the deficiency relates only to two adjudicatory matters currently in…

…But John J. Vecchione, a lawyer with the nonpartisan New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), said some states made it harder for landlords by imposing longer moratoriums than the CDC required. That has put added pressure on property owners to choose between evictions and raising their rents to cope with the lost revenues… Read the full…

..The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created a circuit split when it ruled in December that certified public accountant Michelle Cochran can challenge the SEC’s system “before a real Article III federal court rather than be subjected to an endless series of unlawful agency hearings,” her lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance…