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Org Dedicated to ‘Transparency’ Hides Tax Filings

January 31, 2024
A State Department-funded organization that purports to combat opaque operations within websites and media stands accused of hypocritically and illegally hiding its own funders and officers. The stated mission of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a not-for-profit organization, and its affiliates, as declared on its IRS Form 990 disclosure, is to serve as a “nonpartisan organization that…
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Musk’s Tesla Union Tweet Sets Up Speech Clash at Fifth Circuit

January 24, 2024
… People like Musk are the only ones who can afford to fight the government over a single tweet, but the impact of the case “goes far beyond Elon Musk,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed an amicus brief backing Tesla. “This is really about fundamental First Amendment interests in…
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SEC ‘Gag Orders’ at Risk as Skeptical Court Takes Up Challenge

January 24, 2024
… “We view this as one of the biggest, clearest First Amendment breaches by an agency that’s ever been done,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents Novinger and his company, ICAN Investment Group LLC… The policy is unusual among federal regulators—only the Commodity Futures Trading Commission insists on…
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Fishermen await Supreme Court rulings that could change the regulatory authority of federal agencies

January 20, 2024
… The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonprofit civil rights organization, is representing three fishing companies: Relentless Inc., Huntress Inc. and Seafreeze Fleet LLC… “On a daily basis, before you leave the dock, you have to tell the government what you’re going to fish for. You have a government ankle bracelet on your boat called…
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Sense Of Duty Drives GC To Take On 'Administrative State'

January 18, 2024
Zhonette Brown grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she says she absorbed the values of accountability, self-sufficiency, and duty to one’s family and community…
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Supreme Court hears fishermen’s challenge that could upend agency powers

January 17, 2024
… On the Washington D.C. courthouse steps after the hearing, Meghan Lapp, fisheries liaison at Seafreeze Ltd. In Point Judith, R.I., the homeport of Relentless, said the protests wound their way through fisheries council meetings and NMFS officials to no avail. So fishermen went to court – and appealed the earlier decisions against them. “I was…
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