by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 10, 2023 | Greg Dolin, Opinion, Philip Hamburger
A disturbing constitutional drama is unfolding in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Chief Judge Kimberly Moore has effectively deprived one of her colleagues, Judge Pauline Newman, of her judicial office. Although not as noisy as recent attacks on the...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Jul 28, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Among the revelations in the so-called Twitter files was that government officials pressured social-media companies to censor posts unfavorable to the Biden administration. The White House has denied this, insisting that companies like Meta and Twitter adopted...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Jul 12, 2023 | John J. Vecchione, Opinion
On the Fourth of July, a preliminary injunction issued against the government protecting the rights of all Americans to enter and be heard in the modern public square that is social media without government interference. Judge Terry A. Doughty, in Missouri v. Biden,...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Jul 11, 2023 | Opinion, Sheng Li
The Supreme Court typically waits until the end of a term before releasing its most impactful and controversial decisions. This term’s final decision was Biden v. Nebraska, which held that President Biden lacks authority to spend half a trillion dollars to cancel...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Jun 30, 2023 | Opinion, Peggy Little
George Jarkesy, a private businessman who came into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) sights in 2013 after his businesses lost money in the 2008 recession, was trapped in SEC administrative proceedings for over a decade. He holds the unenviable...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jun 9, 2023 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
Earlier this month on a Friday afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly issued an extraordinary administrative order. In one fell swoop, the SEC unconditionally abandoned more than 40 enforcement cases the agency had previously spent untold staff...
