… Among the 40+ agencies with ALCs and 50+ adjudicating bodies in the federal government, the SEC and CFTC are the only two known entities that can gag its opponents. The SEC’s tendency to issue gag orders is so unpopular that even prominent billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban have denounced them as unfair…

The owner of a background check patent that was found invalid for claiming only an abstract idea has told the U.S. Supreme Court that it was deprived of a fair hearing at the Federal Circuit due to the suspension of Judge Pauline Newman…

The Securities and Exchange Commission is collecting personal information about the buyers and sellers of every single stock trade in the United States and is holding that information for the perusal of thousands of bureaucrats and any hacker who is able to break into the database. This database, called the Consolidated Audit Trail, collects information such as the buyer’s and seller’s address, date…

… For companies and individuals defending against agency enforcement actions, the harm can be “very real and very personal,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal advocacy group that’s frequently involved in suing the federal government. “There’s something deeply insulting in an agency moving forward when constitutional violations are actively…

… In August 2023, Campus Reform reported about a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s student loan cancellation initiative filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA). “The U.S. Department of Education’s actions violate the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause, which grants Congress near-exclusive authority to cancel debt owed to the Treasury,” the NCLA stated at the time. The…

The Supreme Court set a high bar in June for states and individuals to challenge government-tinged censorship of social media, reversing a preliminary injunction against the feds because platforms were already suppressing plaintiffs’ posts when public officials targeted them. Censored doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Aaron Kheriaty, activist Jill Hines and Gateway Pundit publisher Jim Hoft,…