"Congress never authorized SEC to build this unconstitutional panopticon for which the people most harmed— innocent American investors—must pay. Nor would Congress ever pass such intrusive legislation costing 'hundreds of millions of dollars' more than SEC's top estimate. This kind of excess is why the Founders placed the power of the purse in the legislature, and the legislature alone. Decisions about government surveillance and financial exaction first must not violate the Constitution and second may only ...