by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 16, 2023 | Andrew Ceonzo, Blog
The Constitution allows the government to express its views from the bully pulpit but prohibits bullying people into silence. The government generally may select its views and say what it wishes. But the Supreme Court made clear in Bantam Books v. Sullivan...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 2, 2023 | Blog, Zhonette Brown
The government recently had an opportunity to attempt to convince a federal court why efforts to abridge United States citizens’ disfavored political speech are consistent with the First Amendment. As explained in NCLA’s Missouri v. Biden case, ever since 2016,...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | May 18, 2023 | Blog, Russ Ryan
In an op-ed published last fall by Law360, I called out the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its appalling dereliction of duty in refusing to decide administrative appeals from enforcement sanctions imposed by the agency’s administrative law judges...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | May 5, 2023 | Blog, Clegg Ivey
In March 2021, the New Civil Liberties Alliance launched its First Annual King George III Prize, calling out the worst abusers of Americans’ civil liberties. Two years and 96 nominations later, we are nearing the final round of the third installment of what we...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog, Peggy Little
Approximately 111.7 million Americans are cyber-attacked each year. More than 80% of all American firms report that they have been successfully hacked, with 43% of those cyber attacks targeting smaller businesses. Those breaches of security grow in frequency,...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 11, 2023 | Blog, Greg Dolin
When the people of several states presented our Constitution for ratification in 1787, one issue nearly derailed the adoption of the nation’s charter. The Anti-Federalists vehemently objected to the lack of a guarantee for a civil jury in the proposed document....
