Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Walmsley, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. and eliminate the private Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's unfettered regulatory enforcement power over the horseracing industry. Congress passed the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act allowing the Authority to write and enforce nationwide rules that govern doping, medication control, and track safety in horseracing, directing the organization to subcontract with the private U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to enforce anti-doping and mediation rules. This unconstitutional arrangement must be overturned.
The Constitution requires all executive power to be vested in the President. Congress thus may not vest executive power in private entities like the Authority or USADA that the President does not control. The President does not appoint and cannot remove any member of the Authority's Board of Directors, yet Congress authorized the Authority and USADA to exercise executive power by conducting investigations and enforcing federal law. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act also empowers the Authority to appoint "impartial hearing officers or tribunals" to decide in-house adjudications, a task the Authority has assigned to the for-profit company Judicial Arbitrary and Mediation Services.
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