by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog, Casey Norman
“In nonsense is strength.”[1] These are Kurt Vonnegut’s words, but they also happen to be the message that the U.S. federal government sends to its citizens with each unapologetic justification of its ongoing efforts to censor First Amendment-protected speech. ...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 19, 2023 | Blog, Russ Ryan
When a judge says something is illegal, most people stop doing it and change their ways. Not so with federal agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In recent years, three different federal judges have...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Sep 8, 2023 | Anita Kinney, Blog
When I decided to spend my summer as an intern at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, I had no idea I’d change my mind about the U.S. Constitution. But conversations with our elders have a way of changing our perspective. U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 25, 2023 | Blog, NCLA Clerk
In two recent oral arguments at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, including in NCLA’s case Missouri v. Biden, the issue of government speech rights was raised. In both cases the US Government argued it has speech rights which allow it to put out messaging and...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 16, 2023 | Blog, Joseph Partain
The digital age is dead; long live the digital age. Once, we understood as a matter of common sense that what we posted online or did on our phones, while digital, was still real. A mean Tweet is mean speech; and your digital files are property, because why...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 11, 2023 | Blog, Richard Samp
The Supreme Court in several recent cases has explicitly applied what it refers to as the “major questions doctrine” (MQD) when construing the meaning of federal statutes. Under the Doctrine, in “extraordinary” cases the Court will not accept a federal agency’s...
