LJC In The News
CIT Holds 2nd Hearing on Legality of IEEPA Tariffs
(Trade Law Daily)—The Court of International Trade on May 21 held a second hearing in as many weeks on the legality of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The same three judges, Jane Restani, Gary Katzmann and Timothy Reif, pressed both the government and counsel for 12...
Removing US Tariffs Would ‘Kneecap’ President Amid China Trade Talks: Trump Team in Court
(South China Morning Post)—The Donald Trump administration defended its controversial tariffs before a trade court in New York on Wednesday, arguing that striking down the levies would “completely kneecap” the US president amid the country’s trade talks with China. It was the second time in a week that the Court...
The Issue of Wetlands
(Rochelle News-Leader)—Seems like the issue of wetlands has been like a volleyball the past two decades being hit over the net back and forth. When Congress initiated the Clean Water Act back in 1985 wetlands were defined as navigable waters which were subject to regulation. In the past 40 years...
Liberty Justice Center Urges Supreme Court To Overturn Oregon Recording Ban, Project Veritas Case
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) Thursday filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, urging it to strike down an Oregon law that restricts the recording of public officials. The brief, filed in the case of Project Veritas v. Schmidt, argues that Oregon’s statute violates the...
Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Proceeds, as Observers Seek ‘Full Picture’ of Group’s ‘Radical, Political Spending’
(Read Lion)—A judge has allowed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union to move forward, as the union’s own members have been suing to demand financial transparency. The lawsuit stems from the union’s refusal to release its audits for five years, despite its bylaws requiring it to “furnish an audited...
Forbes Interview on Developments in Our Case and Other Litigation Against Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
(Reason)—Earlier today, Forbes interviewed me about developments in the case challenging Donald Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs brought by the Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five US businesses harmed by the tariffs. We also discussed today’s oral argument in the similar case brought by twelve states led...
Judge Allows Member Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union to Continue
(Illinois Policy)—The Chicago Teachers Union suffered a defeat last week when a judge denied its request to dismiss a case filed against it demanding the release of audits its own rules mandate. In Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, several CTU members are challenging the union’s failure to provide its members...
Trump Administration Starts Targeted Tariff De-Escalation
(Grant Thornton)—In a pair of announcements within a week of each other, the Trump administration attempted to de-escalate parts of the trade wars it launched over the last few months. Most notably, the Trump administration and Chinese government agreed to a 90-day pause on the embargo-level tariffs each imposed on...
Incoming Rio Rancho Finance Director Held Same Job During ABQ Planned Parenthood Donation That Sparked Lawsuit
(Rio Rancho Observer)—Rio Rancho’s incoming finance director was in the same role for the city of Albuquerque two years ago, when the city council approved a $250,000 sponsorship with a Planned Parenthood chapter in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s bombshell decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a...
A Major Property Rights Case Idles on Supreme Court Docket
(Reason)—Could a Challenge to Los Angeles’ Eviction Ban End Rent Control in New York? Idling on the Supreme Court’s docket is a challenge to Los Angeles’ COVID-era eviction moratorium that, if heard, could have major implications for legal challenges against tenant protection and rent control laws across the country. In...
CTU Unable To Quickly End Lawsuit For Missing Financial Audits
(Off the Press)—The politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union can’t escape a lawsuit accusing them of violating their members’ rights by refusing to release years’ worth of financial audits, allegedly in breach of their own governing rules. On May 14, a Cook County judge rejected the CTU’s bid to dismiss the...
On Fifth Anniversary of DeVos Rule, DFI Releases Its Model Title IX Law, the ‘RESPECT Title IX Act’
(Defense of Freedom Institute)—On the fifth anniversary of the DeVos Title IX regulations, the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) today released a comprehensive model Title IX law, the Respect Equality in Sports, Privacy, and Education and Campus Transparency Act (RESPECT Title IX Act), that would codify core...
Exclusive: New Title IX Proposal Could End Gender Theory ‘Whiplash’ Forever
(The Federalist)—One of the issues with Title IX, the law that protects the civil rights and equality of men and women at school from K-12 through college, is that it can be manipulated and changed by successive presidential administrations to conduct bizarre social experiments and undermine the law’s original purpose....
Court Allows Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Over Financial Transparency
(Legal Newsline)—In a recent legal development, Judge David B. Atkins of the Circuit Court of Cook County has ruled in favor of the Liberty Justice Center in the case of Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). The court denied CTU’s motion to dismiss the case, marking a significant step for...
‘An Economic Fallacy’: Rand Paul Doesn’t See the Benefits of Tariffs
(Politico)—Sen. Rand Paul attacked the economic logic of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy on Sunday — and agreed that the policies raise constitutional concerns. The Kentucky Republican said Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners are based on “an economic fallacy” about trade deficits and objected to the president’s...