…The Supreme Court “has been clear that we do not invoke lenity just because ‘multiple, divergent principles of statutory construction are available,’” Higginson wrote. Michael Cargill, the Texas gun shop owner who brought the lawsuit challenging the ban, is represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance…

…The latest lawsuit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) argues that all payment pause extensions beyond the initial six months authorized by Congress in the CARES Act — including the extensions implemented by the Trump administration before Biden took office — are illegal. Congress “enacted a clear six-month deadline for that debt-relief program,”…

…Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which brought the lawsuit, said in an interview that the department could resolve the lawsuit amicably by revising the regulations. Li said the department’s current proposal “looks pretty good,” though he hasn’t taken a close look at the wording…

…The newest legal challenge was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank, earlier this week. In a similar lawsuit, private lender SoFi sued the Biden administration last month, also seeking to end the pause on payments…

…Another lawsuit was filed Thursday aiming to force an end to a pause on payments for student loan borrowers that has stretched over three years. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Michigan, was brought by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the Mackinac Center, a free market think tank…

…On Thursday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit law firm aimed at protecting constitutional freedoms, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Mackinac Center, a nonprofit think tank based in Michigan that advocates for limited government. The lawsuit targets Biden’s continued extensions of the student-loan payment pause, and it asks the federal court in the…