New Civil Liberties Alliance
Founded by law professor Philip Hamburger--and inspired by his scholarship--NCLA is a non-profit, public-interest law firm, which engages in pro bono litigation to defend the liberty established by the Constitution and restore constitutional constraints to the administrative state. It focuses primarily on fighting administrative power and conditions on spending where they systematically threaten constitutional freedoms, including the freedom of speech, jury-trial rights, and due process. Rather than resist administrative power wherever it threatens substantive rights and interests, NCLA will work against administrative mechanisms that repeatedly and broadly threaten constitutionally protected rights. For example, NCLA will oppose the Chevron and Auer deference federal courts give to administrative agencies that compromises judicial independence. Coordinating its efforts with other civil rights groups, NCLA will pursue strategic litigation that promises to curtail administrative threats to civil liberties.www.nclalegal.org
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Sep 26, 2026
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It's a little hard to imagine that he cooked this up on his own or that he would tangle with Rosen and Donahue like this on his own.
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And he landed mighty quickly at a dark money shop called the New Civil Liberties Alliance.
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And I don't know who's paying him to be there, but I think there's a bigger story about what's behind this scheme.
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One school of thought is that this is an ambitious nobody who saw his moment, took a shot at it.
John VecchioneHOST
Unwritten Law.
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As we like to say here at NCLA, let judges judge.
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Let legislators legislate and stop bureaucrats from doing either.
Jay BhattacharyaGUEST
And just to preface this, the picture I do have of it, I've learned from a case called Missouri versus Biden that I'm a party to.
Jay BhattacharyaGUEST
I'm represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, NCLA.
Jay BhattacharyaGUEST
The Missouri versus Biden case was brought by the Missouri and Louisiana Attorney General's Office against the Biden administration and against what I would, I mean, I'm just gonna call it what I think it ought to be called, the censorship industrial complex of the federal government.
Jay BhattacharyaGUEST
So through this case, we've been allowed to depose a dozen high-ranking officials in the Biden administration, working throughout various parts of the federal government, including Tony Fauci for a long eight-hour deposition, which I'm sure he enjoyed.
Kara McKenna RollinsGUEST
That distorts a lot of the record.
Kara McKenna RollinsGUEST
Um, and a, if you look back at a, at many of these disgorgement cases, a lot of them were settled on liability, um, which means that at least pre-revocation of the gag rule, which was another NCLA win this year, they, you couldn't contest the things that were in the complaint, which makes it really hard to defend against things like the SEC has said there's a victim.
Kara McKenna RollinsGUEST
Well, you've technically agreed to that in the complaint.
Kara McKenna RollinsGUEST
And so there's distortions in disgorgement, in the development of how disgorgement operates because of that.
John VecchioneHOST
I agree with that, and we'll see you next time on Unwritten Law.
John VecchioneHOST
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Mark ChenowethHOST
As we like to say here at NCLA, let judges judge, let legislators legislate, and stop bureaucrats from doing either.
Scott SloanHOST
Hamilton County debating it as we speak right now on what to do about these things.
Scott SloanHOST
Uh, she is with the New Civil Liberties Alliance and said, "Bad, bad, bad." Andrea Trifoy is on the show next, and, uh, maybe a little bit of common sense coming up here.
Scott SloanHOST
10:07, relative to flock cameras on 700 WW Cincinnati.
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Scott SloanHOST
What happens to all that precious data that they wind up capturing? Where does it go? How long they hold it? What do they do with it? Those are big questions to ask.
Scott SloanHOST
And now into the mix, a recent Supreme Court ruling could blow everything up.
Scott SloanHOST
On that, from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, joining the show is Andrea Trifoy.
Scott SloanHOST
Welcome.
Kara RollinsGUEST
It's not by statute, like in the example I gave, the civil rights laws or EEOC, where Congress itself has said, look, we're going to provide these protections.
Mark ChenowethHOST
And the reason that matters is because from NCLA's perspective, the Constitution only binds the conduct of American citizens through laws that have gone through the constitutional channels, which means bicameralism.
Mark ChenowethHOST
Both houses of Congress have passed it and the president has signed it.
Mark ChenowethHOST
And that's not happening here.
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Mark ChenowethHOST
And so Trump was in the position of being able to upset the whole house of cards by just yanking back the executive orders because the president has the power to yank back a prior president's executive order and congress had never passed any statutes along the way so congress if you want this you have to pass it as a statute that shouldn't be a surprise to anybody
Kara RollinsGUEST
Yeah, and I think that that's sort of the bottom line.
Kara RollinsGUEST
What I think is interesting, in addition to the agencies being in agreement with us, and that's not a position I'm used to, is we agree with NCLA on this, and it happened multiple times.
Kara RollinsGUEST
It happens