LJC In The News
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) is suing the federal government over the TikTok ban, claiming that it violates free speech rights. Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Content Creators: On June 6th, the LJC filed suit challenging the ban on behalf of “BASED Politics,” a group using TikTok to...
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center is taking aim at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) controversial “gag rule” in a recent amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The rule, implemented in 1972, compels individuals who settle enforcement cases with the SEC to...
(Cook County Record)—A public interest law firm is suing Illinois law enforcement officials for monitoring the movements of Illinoisans with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The Liberty Justice Center (LJC), through two Cook County plaintiffs, is arguing that the monitoring, which began in Cook County and is now expanding statewide,...
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center, representing the Chino Valley Unified School District, has filed a motion for summary judgment, urging the Superior Court of California to issue a final ruling upholding the District’s revised parental notification policy. The case, California v. Chino Valley Unified School District, began in August...
(American Family News)—An attorney says California lawmakers want to sow distrust in parents with a bill that would bar school employees from notifying them if their child wants to go by a new pronoun at school. Emily Rae of Liberty Justice Center, a law firm defending Chino Valley Unified School...
(St. Cloud Times)—It’s harder than it used to be to get through college without taking out loans. But I did it. When I was in 11th and 12th grade, I took classes at St. Cloud State University through a Minnesota program that allows high-school students to earn college credit tuition-free....
(Sara Gonzales Unfiltered)—In an interview on Sara Gonzales Unfiltered, North Carolina mom Leah McGhee and the Liberty Justice Center’s Educational Freedom Attorney Dean McGee discuss the latest developments in a lawsuit defending Leah’s son Christian, who was wrongfully branded a racist and given a three-day out of school suspension—just for...
(Reuters)—A U.S. appeals court on Monday said it will hold oral arguments on Sept. 16 on legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban. On May 14, a group of TikTok creators filed suit to block the...
(Reason)—Can state police track drivers everywhere they go via hundreds of license plate cameras? A new lawsuit says that Illinois’ widespread use of such cameras—called automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)—violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches because it breaches citizens’ reasonable expectations of privacy. The complaint—filed by two residents...
(Lou Dobbs Tonight)—The Liberty Justice Center’s Educational Freedom Attorney Dean McGee discusses the latest developments in a federal lawsuit defending Christian McGhee, a North Carolina student who was suspended for asking a question containing the phrase “illegal alien.” The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a preliminary injunction urging the court...
(Newsweek)—TikTok is not just cat videos, cringe-worthy dancing, and bad lip-syncing. Millions of Gen Z Americans like myself use TikTok to express ourselves, share news, and debate our ideas. Yet the federal government is trying to take this unique communication platform away from us. In April, President Joe Biden signed...
(Patch)—A Springfield judge ruled that a new Illinois law that prevents political parties from slating candidates when no one runs in a primary election is unconstitutional. Wednesday’s order from Sangamon County Circuit Judge Gail Noll only applies to the 14 Republican candidates and the November 2024 election cycle. Passed by...
(The Epoch Times)—An Illinois judge has blocked enforcement of a controversial election law recently signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that barred political parties from appointing candidates to fill out general election ballots where the party did not field a primary candidate, a practice known as slating. Judge Gail Noll granted...
(The Daily Caller)—An Illinois judge ruled Wednesday against a Democratic effort to bar Republicans from running for statewide office by altering election laws midway through the campaign season. Illinois Democrats had attempted to use its supermajority to pass legislation rewriting the rules by which political parties can select candidates, according...
(Fox Business)—FIRST ON FOX: Right-leaning TikTok users filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the law President Biden signed forcing a sale of TikTok, arguing it violates the First Amendment. According to a press release obtained by FOX Business, the Liberty Justice Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of BASED Politics Inc.,...