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Closing the Circle

September 16, 2022
As the Wall Street Journal recently noted, the FTC’s recent lawsuit against Walmart raises a fundamental constitutional issue regarding the FTC’s authority to initiate lawsuits. The point at issue concerns Congress’s authority to limit the President’s power to remove executive officers, an issue that has been in contention since Reconstruction and, perhaps, will be resolved…
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Fishery Monitor Cost Similar To Nets, 1st Circ. Says

September 14, 2022
…”They can require nets. It doesn’t say who pays for the nets; the agency requires the nets and your clients have to pay,” Judge Kayatta told John Vecchione of New Civil Liberties Alliance, an attorney for a group of New England herring fishermen…Read the full article
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Gun Activist Asks Appeals Court to Block Bump Stock Ban

September 13, 2022
…Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, arguing for plaintiff Michael Cargill, told the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans that the prohibition relied on a flawed decision to classify a bump stock as a machine gun under federal law. A bump stock, he said, is not a machine gun…
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Second Amendment Advocate Pushes Appeals Court to Reconsider Trump-Era ‘Bump Stock’ Ban

September 13, 2022
…An attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group representing Cargill, told the Washington Examiner that the matter at issue is not the Second Amendment but whether bump stocks qualify as illegal “machine guns” under federal law…Read the full article
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Wyoming Congressional Candidate Hageman Gets Courtroom Win Against EPA

September 12, 2022
…Hageman is senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights organization which claims to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the “Administrative State.”The New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing Colorado resident Todd Hennis in a lawsuit against the United States for the physical taking of his property without just…
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Kevin McCarthy: Biden 'Has Divided Us Further'

September 12, 2022
…But while no such precedent for the Biden administration has been set by a judge, on the same day as Biden’s “Unity,” speech, a litigious civil organization, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, issued a press release detailing that the Biden administration has pressured social media companies to squash narratives pertaining to COVID-19 and the suppression of…
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