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Kaitlyn Schiraldi

Staff Attorney


Kaitlyn Schiraldi is Staff Attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Prior to joining NCLA, Kaitlyn worked at Mountain States Legal Foundation where she litigated to defend citizens from the government’s unwieldy power, filed amicus briefs, drafted comments on agency regulations, and was a frequent webinar panelist.

Kaitlyn graduated magna cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law and holds an undergraduate degree, with honors, from The University of Texas at Austin.

Kaitlyn is licensed to practice law in Tennessee. She is one of four young leaders that head the Nashville Federalist Society’s Young Lawyers Committee—helping plan local events where the brightest legal minds come speak. She is also a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council. In her downtime, you can find her spending time in the great outdoors with her husband and two dogs, or immersed in Nashville’s music scene.

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in Tennessee and select federal jurisdictions.

Our Agencies Are Failing Us: Why A Mother’s Discernment Cannot Be Replaced by Fallible Agencies

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi February 12, 2025
Blogs
American citizens should not allow federal agencies to replace their own discernment and instinct by blindly believing that regulations reduce risk—the government will never be a benevolent parens patriae. Skepticism of the government is a natural result of being in the public interest legal profession, but entering motherhood heightened this distrust. The sanctity of protecting…
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A Constitutional Lawyer’s Dream: Tightening the Intelligible Principle Test

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi September 20, 2024
Blogs
The Roberts Court has an appetite for taking decades-old, unworkable, judge-made doctrines and injecting the Constitution into the fold. The Justices no longer turn a blind eye to unconstitutional “tests” in the name of stare decisis, thereby becoming complicit in weakening the Constitution, but rather scrutinize the decisions of their brethren through the lens of…
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Statutory Misinterpretation: How the Department of Education Squinted at Title IX and Pretended ‘Sex’ Wasn’t Binary

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi June 6, 2024
Blogs
Many non-lawyers instinctively recoil when unelected agency bureaucrats inject hotly debated social issues into federal regulations. The common man intuitively understands what agencies do not—agencies need Congress’s permission before they enact regulations. Agencies have toppled Congress’s authority by a slight-of-hand called manipulative statutory interpretation. Legitimate statutory interpretation is a Nancy Drew-esque sleuthing escapade to determine…
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