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NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes joins The Chris Stigall Show to discuss the legal walls closing in on Biden and Big Tech's censorship collusion on COVID and the Hunter Biden laptop.

NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes joins Fox Business to discuss new evidence uncovered in NCLA's lawsuit against the Biden Administration for coercing social media companies to censor Covid-19 viewpoints. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has issued a ruling of vast importance for the millions of Americans who have experienced government-induced censorship on social media and for all Americans who care about the First Amendment. Judge Terry A. Doughty ordered Dr. Anthony Fauci and WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to respond to document requests by NCLA in conjunction with the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general on behalf of plaintiffs in State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al.

NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione joins NewsTalkSTL to discuss NCLA's joins lawsuit with Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general against the Biden Administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor free speech online. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has issued a ruling of vast importance for the millions of Americans who have experienced government-induced censorship on social media and for all Americans who care about the First Amendment. Judge Terry A. Doughty ordered Dr. Anthony Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to respond to document requests by NCLA in conjunction with the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general on behalf of plaintiffs in State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al.

NCLA’s Fifth Circuit Oral Argument in Case Challenging Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules NCLA’s Peggy Little gives highlights of her Fifth Circuit oral argument in the lawsuit, National Center for Public Policy Research v. SEC. NCLA client, National Center for Public Policy Research, argues that SEC has no power to approve Nasdaq’s new Board Diversity Rules because the rules have nothing to do with fraud or honest markets. Can Magistrate Judges Sign Search Warrants? Vec and Mark debate whether magistrate judges can sign search warrants.

CO Landowner’s Lawsuit Against EPA Advances After Judge Denies MTD Judge Armando Bonilla of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued a decision from the bench in favor of NCLA’s client and denying a motion to dismiss in Todd Hennis v. The United States of America. Mr. Hennis filed a lawsuit against the United States for the physical taking of his property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment. On August 5, 2015, EPA destroyed the portal to the Gold King Mine, located in Silverton, Colorado. Upon doing so, the agency released a toxic sludge of over 3,000,000 gallons of acid mine drainage and 880,000 pounds of heavy metals into the Animas River watershed. EPA eventually mobilized supplies and equipment onto Mr. Hennis’s downstream property to address the immediate after-effects of its actions. The U.S. Government has never paid Mr. Hennis any compensation for either flooding or appropriating his property for public use. It has instead squatted on his lands for seven years and counting. NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman recounts her win in Hennis in the Court of Federal Claims. Suit Uncovers Army of Govt. Officials Coercing Big Tech to Censor Speech A joint statement on discovery disputes in the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., has revealed that scores of federal officials across at least eleven federal agencies secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech federal officials disfavor. Vec and NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes discuss the bombshell discovery documents.

The Biden Administration’s involvement in silencing the voices of those who have critiqued its responses to Covid-19, through pressure exerted on social media companies, is unprecedented in nature and degree. Two of the plaintiffs, Drs. Bhattacharya and Kulldorff, are among the world’s most renowned epidemiologists, and had crucial insights to share on the flawed reasoning and science underlying lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates. Dr. Kheriaty, a professor of medical ethics, and Ms. Hines, a consumer and human rights advocate, also offered thoughtful, reasoned opposition to government-imposed Covid-19 restrictions. The government’s sweeping campaign to suppress the perspectives of the plaintiffs, and others like them, represents the most severe abrogation of the First Amendment in modern times, and we look forward to seeing this constitutional atrocity rectified in a court of law. Website: https://nclalegal.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewCivilLibertiesAlliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCLAlegal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ncla-legal/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nclalegal/

Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Is Unlawful Mark and Vec discuss President Biden’s unlawful student loan forgiveness plan. You Can’t Kill the Constitution Two Ivy League law professors think we should kill the Constitution. Hard pass.

In NCLA Win, First Circuit Rules Taxpayers Can Sue IRS; DC Circuit Decision Tees Up Chevron A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has unanimously ruled in Harper v. Rettig that taxpayer James Harper can take the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to federal court for gathering private financial information about his use of virtual currency from third-party exchanges without a lawful subpoena. NCLA’s First Circuit victory in Harper means people can sue the IRS. DC Circuit Decision Tees Up Chevron Deference A split D.C. Circuit has ruled in Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc v. Gina Raimondo that the National Marine Fisheries Service can interpret federal law to require industry-funded monitoring of Atlantic herring fishermen. The court’s decision in Loper Bright tees up Chevron deference.

NCLA President and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins Centerpoint TV to discuss NCLA's lawsuits against Covid vaccine mandates and government-directed censorship of social media users.

Daily Wire Culture Reporter Megan Basham joins the Morning Wire podcast to discuss NCLA's lawsuit against government/Big Tech censorship, Missouri v. Biden. NCLA joined the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., representing renowned epidemiologists and co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, as well as Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and Jill Hines. Social media platforms, acting at the federal government’s behest, repeatedly censored NCLA’s clients for articulating views on those platforms in opposition to government-approved views on Covid-19 restrictions. This insidious censorship was the direct result of the federal government’s ongoing campaign to silence those who voice perspectives that deviate from those of the Biden Administration. Government officials’ public threats to punish social media companies that did not do their bidding demonstrate this linkage, as do emails from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to social media companies that only recently were made public.

NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes joins Alabama's Morning News with JT to address the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention easing its Covid-19 guidance.

NCLA President and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins The Jeff Katz Show to talk about the CDC changing their COVID guidelines again and finally admitting natural immunity is real.

NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes joins WIOX to discuss government vaccine mandates, lockdowns, censorship, and her current litigation defending free speech of differing Covid viewpoints.

Mark chats with Professor Dorian Abbot of the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited Prof. Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture in the fall of 2021. But then the university withdrew its invitation after some students and faculty complained about a Newsweek op-ed co-authored by Abbot. In it, he argued that many aspects of affirmative action—and especially diversity, equity, and inclusion policies—violate “the ethical and legal principle of equal treatment” and treat “people as members of a group rather than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century.”

Mark chats with Professor Dorian Abbot of the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited Prof. Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture in the fall of 2021. But then the university withdrew its invitation after some students and faculty complained about a Newsweek op-ed co-authored by Abbot. In it, he argued that many aspects of affirmative action—and especially diversity, equity, and inclusion policies—violate “the ethical and legal principle of equal treatment” and treat “people as members of a group rather than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century.”

If you study or work at a government-funded college and you are on the receiving end of a Title IX complaint, don’t expect justice to be served. Especially if you’ve been wrongfully accused. The New Civil Liberties Alliance is fighting for full and fair opportunity for the accused to challenge the validity of the charges filed against them. NCLA is suing these universities for violations of due process, and also has sued the Department of Education for forcing these universities to adopt such an unfair process. NCLA currently represents former faculty members Alyssa Reid against James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Dr. Mukund Vengalattore against Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Learn more: www.collegekangaroocourts.com

In a blockbuster 6-3 decision on June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s claim of sweeping regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act in the case West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Invoking the “major questions doctrine,” the high court stated that EPA could not “point to ‘clear congressional authorization’” to devise carbon emissions limits that would shut down many power plants and reconfigure the entire industry. NCLA agrees that EPA’s Clean Power Plan exceeded its statutory authority. But we are concerned that the major questions doctrine’s reasoning might be misused by lower courts to decide that Congress may divest its legislative power if it does so knowingly and expressly or on matters that are less than major. NCLA President and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth moderates the discussion with NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Rich Samp, who co-authored NCLA's amicus brief, and Jonathan Brightbill, of Winston & Strawn, who helped draft the repeal of the Obama-era rule at issue and then argued that portion of the case in the DC Circuit. Website: https://nclalegal.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewCivilLibertiesAlliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCLAlegal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ncla-legal/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nclalegal/

Raid on Mar-a-Lago Mark and Vec discuss Mar-a-Lago. The EEOC and Religious Discrimination With Sharon Gustafson Vec interviews Sharon Gustafson, immediate past General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), on the EEOC and religious discrimination.

Supreme Court’s Response to COVID-19 Actions Mark interviews former United States Assistant Attorney General and current Partner at Jones Day, Eric Dreiband, on the Supreme Court’s response to COVID-19 actions. The Effects of SEC’s ESG Initiative Vec discusses the SEC’s Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) initiatives’ effects even before implementation.

NCLA’s President and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth chats with Professor Joshua Katz, formerly of Princeton University. Professor Katz' troubles began when he had the temerity to express the wrong opinion: He criticized a campus group, the Black Justice League, in response to a list of racialist demands made during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Before he knew it, his employer was digging through his past, looking for a pretense it could use to terminate him. And, having found what it was looking for in an infraction from 15 years ago, Princeton unceremoniously fired a tenured professor. This is another sad instance of institutions excavating past wrongs to expunge the moral stain of expressing an unorthodox opinion. And it could mark the nadir of free speech on campus.

NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes joins The Hrvoje Morić Show to discuss the federal government's involvement in tech censorship of "Covid misinformation", the fight against mask/vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and more.

EPA’s “Orange River” Disaster Todd Hennis spent decades building his nest egg as owner of the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado. But seven years ago, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency destroyed the entrance to the mine causing a breach and releasing a toxic sludge of over three million gallons of acid mine drainage and 880,000 pounds of heavy metals. Referred to as the “orange (or yellow) river seen around the world”, the rush of contamination snaked down the Animus River watershed. NCLA represents Mr. Hennis in his lawsuit, Hennis v. U.S., seeking compensation for the years EPA has been squatting on his property without his permission or constitutional authority to do so without just compensation. Mark and NCLA Litigation Counsel Kara Rollins discuss Hennis over EPA’s land grab. NCLA Calls for Full Sixth Circuit to Reconsider FDIC ALJ Protections NCLA has filed an amicus brief in a case addressing whether certain Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation officers, including the agency’s ALJs, are protected by multiple layers of tenure protection in violation of the “Take Care” clause of the Constitution. NCLA asks the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the petition for rehearing in Calcutt v. FDIC. Mark and NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel or Russ Ryan discuss the latest NCLA amicus.

NCLA Joins Suit Challenging Gov’t-Directed Social Media Censorship NCLA has joined the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., representing renowned epidemiologists and co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, as well as Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and Jill Hines. Social media platforms, acting at the federal government’s behest, repeatedly censored NCLA’s clients for articulating views on those platforms in opposition to government-approved views on Covid-19 restrictions. NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes explains the new joint lawsuit. Reflecting on One Year of Vaccine Mandate Cases Jenin and Mark reflect on the past year of Covid-19 vaccine mandate cases.

Todd Hennis spent decades building his nest egg as owner of the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado. But on a day like today, seven years ago, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) destroyed the entrance to the mine that was holding back water trapped inside, causing a breach and releasing a toxic sludge of over three million gallons of acid mine drainage and 880,000 pounds of heavy metals. Called the “orange river seen around the world,” the rush of contamination snaked down the Animas River. A video, released today by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit civil rights group, shows the foreseeable, destructive aftermath of EPA’s deliberate actions at the mine entrance and elsewhere. EPA not only destroyed the environment it is entrusted to protect, but it also violated its own directives, protocols and procedures, while stripping Todd Hennis of access to and use of his hard-earned property. To try to clean up the mess of its own creation, EPA built a gigantic water-treatment facility on another parcel of Mr. Hennis’s land adjacent to the Animas River, but it has refused to compensate him for using and occupying this property. NCLA represents Mr. Hennis in his lawsuit, Todd Hennis v. The United States of America, which seeks compensation for the years EPA has been squatting on his property without his permission and in violation of the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, which forbids “private property [to] be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Oral argument on the Government’s motion to dismiss Mr. Hennis’s takings claim is scheduled to be heard on August 30, 2022 in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC. Website: https://nclalegal.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewCivilLibertiesAlliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCLAlegal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ncla-legal/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nclalegal/

NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes joins NTD News to discuss NCLA's recent decision to join Louisiana & Missouri AGs' lawsuit against Big Tech's government-influenced censorship of Covid-19 viewpoints.