As U.S. Securities Regulator FINRA Faces Constitutional Challenge, Bill Barr Calls for Defanging It

…That filing, in turn, prompted two briefs filed on Wednesday in support of Alpine, one from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that frequently represents defendants targeted in SEC proceedings; and the other from Barr, now at Torridon Law, and Francisco, a partner at Jones Day. Their brief is on behalf of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, a recently formed group dedicated to the proposition that the “insatiable expansion of the federal regulatory state” is strangling American businesses…

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