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John J. Vecchione

Senior Litigation Counsel


Mr. Vecchione is a Senior Litigation Counsel for the non-profit New Civil Liberties Alliance representing clients against the Administrative State. He was previously President and CEO of the non-profit Cause of Action Institute, also advancing the constitutional order. He practiced at a number of D.C. area firms, including the eponymous John J. Vecchione Law, PLLC. Mr. Vecchione focuses his practice on strategic litigation in the federal district and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. He is an experienced trial and appellate advocate having tried cases and argued appeals across the country. He is a member of the bars of the State of New York, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States and many federal courts. His cases are reported in scores of published opinions. He has also published pieces advancing the freedom agenda and constitutional order in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times and many other forums. . He lives in Virginia with his wife Rebecca, sons Tommy and Joe.​

Chevron Deference Tempts All Our Constitutional Actors to Behave Badly and It Should Go

By: John J. Vecchione January 16, 2024
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This week, we go to the Supreme Court in Relentless v. Commerce for argument on whether Chevron deference—the deference given to agencies when they interpret an ambiguous or silent statute—continue or be abandoned by the Court. Both our briefs and those of the Petitioners in Loper Bright detail Chevron deference’s constitutional, statutory, and structural errors.  But one aspect of how bad Chevron is has not…
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In Landmark Free Speech Case, Fifth Circuit Judge Likens Government Coercion Of Big Tech To ‘Mob’ Boss

By: John J. Vecchione August 15, 2023
Whether or not the federal government and its myriad agencies will be able to coerce, cajole, encourage, threaten, and browbeat social media companies into removing views it does not like from their platforms was the question before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week. The government made an expedited appeal of the July 4th order of the…
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Free Speech on the Fourth of July

By: John J. Vecchione July 12, 2023
On the Fourth of July, a preliminary injunction issued against the government protecting the rights of all Americans to enter and be heard in the modern public square that is social media without government interference. Judge Terry A. Doughty, in Missouri v. Biden, issued an order and an opinion preventing the administration from “urging, encouraging, pressuring,…
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