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Andreia Trifoi

Andreia Trifoi

Constitutional Litigation Fellow


Andreia Trifoi is the Constitutional Litigation Fellow at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Before joining NCLA, Andreia was 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.

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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