Press Releases

NCLA Asks U.S. District Court to Stop Unconstitutional Suspension of Circuit Judge Pauline Newman

Washington, DC (June 28, 2023) — Chief Judge Kimberly Moore and the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have indefinitely suspended highly-respected veteran Judge Pauline Newman from hearing new cases—and they did so before investigating ...

NCLA Suit Aims to Take Down Unconstitutional Enforcement Regime at the U.S. Dep’t of Transportation

Washington, DC (June 28, 2023) – The Department of Transportation (DOT) is flexing its muscles against a small, family-owned and operated company, ignoring the federal law that only allows civil penalties when a company “knowingly violates” a regulation. So, the New Civil ...

NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Rein in SEC Practice of Seeking Penalties in Excess of Statutory Caps

Washington, DC (June 26, 2023) – Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) penalties have exploded in size in recent years, in large part because the agency ignores statutory penalty caps Congress set in 1990. SEC civil penalties have become wildly inconsistent and ...

NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Reverse Second Circuit, Hold CFPB’s Funding Method Unconstitutional

Washington, DC (June 22, 2023) – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an outlier agency, and the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its illegitimate funding method, the New Civil Liberties Alliance argues in a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in the ...

NCLA Cert Petition Joins Effort Asking U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Chevron and Scrap Fishy Rule

Washington, DC (June 14, 2023) – The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) have imposed an unconstitutional rule requiring fishing companies to pay for at-sea ...

U.S. Forest Service Illegitimately Created Crimes, Prosecuted Skier over Instagram Post, NCLA Says

Washington, DC (June 9, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil liberties organization, filed an opening brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit last night, appealing its client David Lesh’s contested criminal convictions ...

Watch: A Physician with a Gag Order Is Not a Physician You Can Trust, NCLA Releases Case Video Challenging California’s AB 2098

Washington, DC (June 8, 2023) – The government declared the pandemic officially over on May 11th, but a video released today by the New Civil Liberties Alliance explains how California Assembly Bill 2098 (AB 2098) subjects physicians to discipline for disseminating ...

Watch: Biden’s Student Loan Debt Cancellation Plan Undermines Congress, Says NCLA

Washington, DC (June 8, 2023) – The Biden Administration’s illegal plan to unilaterally cancel student loan debt is getting pushback in the courts from the nonpartisan nonprofit civil liberties group, New Civil Liberties Alliance. A video released by NCLA outlines how the ...

NCLA Endorses Request for U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on ATF’s Unilateral Bump Stock Ban

Washington, DC (June 8, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil liberties organization, has filed a brief agreeing that the U.S. Supreme Court should grant the U.S. Solicitor General’s cert petition in the Garland v. Cargill case. That ...

Hopelessly Compromised SEC Dismisses Dozens of Cases Due to Widespread Agency Misconduct

Washington, DC (June 5, 2023) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dismissed dozens of enforcement cases Friday, including two involving current NCLA clients (Michelle Cochran, Marian Young) and one of a former client (Christopher Gibson). The agency revealed ...

NCLA’s King George III Award Recognizes Atty. General Garland as Worst Violator of Civil Liberties

Washington, DC (June 2, 2023) – The People have spoken. The biggest abuser of civil liberties in the Administrative State is Attorney General Merrick Garland. After a weeks-long public vote as part of the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s Third Annual “King George III Prize,” ...

NCLA Calls Out CPSC Commissioner Trumka’s Deliberate Efforts to Ban DockATot Infant Loungers

Washington, DC (June 1, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights organization, has sent a formal letter to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission detailing how CPSC, and Commissioner Richard Trumka in particular, have severely ...

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