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Unwritten Law
Every day, unelected federal agencies make decisions that affect your job, your business, your speech, your property, and your constitutional rights—often without Congress ever voting on them. From the rules that govern small businesses to the regulations that shape everyday life, the modern administrative state reaches further than most Americans realize. On Unwritten Law, constitutional lawyers Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione break down the biggest legal battles involving federal agencies…
Episodes
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FBI Wrong-House Raid—Supreme Court Checks Federal Immunity in Martin v. United States
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione are joined by litigation counsel Casey Norman to discuss the Supreme Court ruling in…
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One Year After Chevron—How Loper Bright & Relentless Changed Administrative Law
In this special anniversary episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione discuss the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Loper Bright &…
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Coinbase, IRS, and Your Privacy—Will the Supreme Court End the Third-Party Doctrine?
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione discuss the latest developments in Harper v. IRS, a privacy case currently pending…
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Fax Machines, 60-Day Rules, and Why Administrative Deadlines Just Changed
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth sits down with Senior Litigation Counsel Peggy Little to unpack the Supreme Court’s decision in…
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Silencing Scholarship—How Institutional Review Boards Chill Free Speech
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione are joined by NCLA’s Margot Cleveland to discuss a groundbreaking lawsuit against…
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When Courts Say No—Alpine Securities, FINRA, and the Power of Private Regulators
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione are joined by NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Russ Ryan to discuss the Supreme…
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Unanimous and Surprising—Supreme Court Cases You Didn't Expect
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione analyze a remarkable set of unanimous Supreme Court rulings—authored by Justices…
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Tariffs vs. Small Business—Simplified’s Battle Against Executive Power-Grab
In this special episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA's Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione are joined by Andy Morris, NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel, and Emily Ley…
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Fired Up—Can the President Slash the Federal Workforce?
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione dive into a dramatic legal battle over the president's power to reduce the federal…
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The Waiver Wars—Congress, California, and the Fight Over Emissions Rules
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione explore a major development in Congress involving the Congressional Review Act…
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Can One Judge Halt a Law? Inside the Supreme Court Fight Over Nationwide Injunctions
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione unpack the recent Supreme Court oral argument in a high-stakes case involving…
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This Isn’t a Trade Court Case—It’s a Constitutional One
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s John Vecchione and attorney Andy Morris break down the latest developments in Simplified v. United States, NCLA’s…
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State Department Censorship—Daily Wire, Disinfo Files, and the Fight for Free Speech
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA’s Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione are joined by attorney Margot Cleveland to expose the State Department’s role in…
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Who Judges the Judges? NCLA Defends Judge Pauline Newman
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA President Mark Chenoweth and Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione sit down with NCLA’s Greg Dolin to unpack his…
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COVID-19 Mandates and Constitutional Limits—The Stewart v. Walz Case
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA President Mark Chenoweth and Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione are joined by NCLA attorney Jenin Younes to…
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Declared Emergency, Hidden Tax: The Case Against Trump’s Tariffs
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA President Mark Chenoweth and Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione are joined by attorney Andy Morris to discuss…
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Trump’s Tariffs, Emergency Powers, and the Lawsuit No One Else Filed
Is it legal for a president to impose tariffs under emergency powers? In this episode of Unwritten Law, Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione break down NCLA’s…
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Monarch Madness—Inside NCLA’s 2025 King George III Prize
In this special episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA President Mark Chenoweth and Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione are joined by NCLA’s Director of…
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Injunctions Everywhere—How Courts Are Handling Executive Orders
In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA President Mark Chenoweth sits down with Margot Cleveland, Of Counsel at NCLA and Senior Legal Correspondent for The…
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Taxation Without Legislation? The FCC’s $10 Billion Question
Can a federal agency raise billions in fees without Congress ever approving the tax? In this episode of Unwritten Law, host Mark Chenoweth is joined by NCLA’s…
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Injunctions, Mootness, and the Legal Tricks That Shut Down Civil Liberties Lawsuits
Can you really “win” a lawsuit if the court never rules on your case? In this episode of Unwritten Law, Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione break down two recent…
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Who Watches the Watchdogs? The Unchecked Power of CIGIE
In this episode of Unwritten Law, hosts Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione unpack John’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed calling for the abolition of CIGIE—the…
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Can the President Fire Who He Wants? The Fight Over Executive Power
Who really controls the executive branch? In this episode of Unwritten Law, hosts Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione break down a high-stakes legal battle over…
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Vaccine Mandates, the Ninth Circuit, and the Battle Over Bodily Autonomy
Are vaccine mandates constitutional? In this episode of Unwritten Law, hosts Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione sit down with NCLA’s Jenin Younes to discuss…
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Crypto, the IRS, and the Fight for Financial Privacy
Does the IRS have the right to seize your financial records—without a warrant, without suspicion, and without you even knowing? In this episode of Unwritten…
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From Cliffs to Courtrooms: Base Jumpers Take on the Administrative State
Is it a crime to jump off a cliff in a national park? The National Park Service seems to think so. In this episode of Unwritten Law, hosts Mark Chenoweth and…
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The Sixth Amendment Showdown: Who Deserves a Jury Trial?
Should the government be able to deny you a jury trial for a criminal charge? Unwritten Law hosts Mark Chenoweth and John Vecchione sit down with NCLA’s Jenin…
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Chevron’s Demise and the Future of Administrative Power
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Unwritten Law, the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s podcast exposing unlawful administrative power. Hosts Mark Chenoweth and…