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Andreia Trifoi

Andreia Trifoi

Staff Attorney


Andreia Trifoi is a Staff Attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. She was previously a NCLA Constitutional Litigation Fellow. Before joining NCLA, Andreia served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Victor J. Wolski at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. She earned her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in 2023 and attended Florida State University for undergrad. As a law student, Andreia was a summer law clerk at NCLA and Pacific Legal Foundation, and an intern in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In her free time, Andreia loves to travel, read, and learn about aviation history. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, as well as to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims bar.

When “General Welfare” Becomes a Blank Check: Why the Supreme Court Should Reexamine Congress’s Spending Power

By: Andreia Trifoi November 10, 2025
Blogs
Does Congress actually have the power to spend? One looking only at the Constitution’s text would be hard-pressed to find any language that grants Congress a general spending power. Yet modern-day Spending Clause jurisprudence has given Congress an expansive spending power that cuts through other constitutional constraints.     The Spending Clause, art. I, § 8,…
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The Thunder Basin Trap

By: Andreia Trifoi July 25, 2025
Blogs
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court decided McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., where it held that the Hobbs Act’s grant of exclusive review in the courts of appeals to determine the validity of agency orders does not preclude district courts from determining the meaning of the law under Loper Bright. Importantly, the…
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Arbitrary lockdown rules

By: Andreia Trifoi April 1, 2025
COVID-19 | FIve Years Page
Another way in which the Administrative State burdened liberty during the Covid-19 pandemic was through the creation and enforcement of arbitrary lockdown rules. Governors utilized the full extent of their emergency powers (and then some) during the pandemic. Many bypassed the appropriate legislative channels to implement mandates in the name of “public health.” City mayors…
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