They say that an oral argument cannot predict a case’s outcome, but NCLA’s October 5, 2022 argument in Mexican Gulf v. U.S. Department of Commerce may prove to be an exception to that advice. There, a Fifth Circuit panel comprised of Chief Judge Richman and Judges Elrod and Oldham expressed deep skepticism at a federal…

…“When Biden says these sorts of things, the litigants do put them in their briefs,” said John Vecchione, senior counsel with New Civil Liberties Alliance. “Nobody wants to be the government attorney to go before a court and say there is an emergency when the president said otherwise.”…Read the full article

…An attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group representing Texas-based advocate Michael Cargill, told the Washington Examiner that the matter at issue in the Fifth Circuit case is not the Second Amendment but if bump stocks qualify as illegal “machine guns” under federal law…Read the full article

…”Administrative agencies use the issue of the day to do what they wanted to do anyway,” said John Vecchione, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. “With student loans, they’re trying to get more juice out of COVID. They’re going to try anything to do what they wanted to do anyway, then address…

…While the issue is not technically a Second Amendment case, an attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance told the Washington Examiner that the matter at issue is whether bump stocks qualify as illegal “machine guns” under federal law…Read the full article

…The local government appealed to the nation’s highest court in June. That appeal attracted attention from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group founded “to challenge multiple constitutional defects in the modern administrative state.”…Read the full article