by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Apr 6, 2024 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
When the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Volkswagen with fraud five years ago, the company emphatically disputed the charges as “legally and factually flawed” while assuring shareholders it would “vigorously” contest them. Fast forward to 2024. The SEC and...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Mar 27, 2024 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The justices of the Supreme Court never focused on the First Amendment’s words when hearing arguments in Murthy v. Missouri last week. The case challenges the federal government’s orchestration of social media censorship, so one might have expected the justices to pay...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2024 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
Imagine you’ve just endured a nasty lawsuit where your adversary convinces the court you deserved to be punished. Before lodging your appeal, you’re sued in a different tribunal for even more punishment—and the judge assigned to decide that new case is your erstwhile...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Mar 18, 2024 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
Next week, the Supreme Court will confront a government censorship operation that has no analog in American history. The justices are set to hear oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri, a First Amendment challenge to the Biden administration’s pandemic-era censorship...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Feb 22, 2024 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Our nation faces many problems, including moral decay, religious decline, economic malaise, and military vulnerabilities, but none of these problems are as firmly entrenched as our primary governmental problem, the administrative state. Administrative power is the...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Feb 28, 2024 | Mark Chenoweth, Opinion
The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week regarding the federal ban on bump stocks, a disturbing sequence of events that culminated in a federal agency branding hundreds of thousands of Americans as criminals without congressional action. This is one...
