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Board Politics & Society
Re: Amy Coney Barrett [Supreme Court nominee]
by
nullius
on 27/10/2020, 21:50:26 UTC
Is the NCLA’s below-quoted evaluation of Barrett correct?

To be clear, I am trying to evaluate the NCLA’s suitability for my charity bet with theymos.  theymos suggested the NCLA to me; it looks good, at a glance.  Unfortunately, I am much more pessimistic than you folks.  I think that you were long ago doomed and foredoomed, no matter who gets onto the SCOTUS now:  Horses, barn door...  I can’t be arsed to read the NCLA’s PDFs just to see if they are really good enough to receive 0.01 BTC from me if Trump loses.

Thanks in advance for any advice about the NCLA’s evaluation of Amy Coney Barrett!

“Administrative law” tyranny:

... A president could for example wield the administrative state in such a way as to make it very difficult to use Bitcoin without existing in the shadows, and a Biden administration is probably more likely to move in this direction than a Trump administration. ...

... “administrative law” tyranny.  I think that most American consider the U.S. Code to be “Federal law”; well, what about that other conjoined-twin body of Federal law, the C.F.R.? ...

NCLA Applauds Supreme Court Nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Record on Administrative Power

Washington, DC (September 26, 2020) — The New Civil Liberties Alliance commends President Trump’s nomination of the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

NCLA, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group devoted to protecting constitutional freedoms from violations by the Administrative State, analyzed Judge Barrett’s interpretation of administrative power issues, including any record of questioning judicial deference or bias in favor of agencies in a white paper of prospective nominees released this week.

NCLA strongly believes we need federal judges who are willing to protect the civil liberties of individual Americans from unlawful administrative power. If courts will not check administrative abuses when they occur and force federal agencies to stick to constitutional pathways, then the government will run amok and civil liberties will be lost.