LJC In The News
Group behind tariff challenge calls Pritzker’s refund check demand irrational
Sean Reed | July 20, 2026 (The Center Square) As over $86 billion has begun making its way back to small businesses impacted by tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is still demanding refund checks for Illinois families. Sara Albrecht, chairman and CEO of the...
How Should the Court Address Discrimination?
Sara Albrecht | July 17, 2026 (The Washington Post – Opinion) The July 14 front-page article “‘Colorblind Constitution’ concept underlies key Supreme Court decisions” portrayed constitutional colorblindness as an obscure conservative invention recently elevated by a rightward-moving Supreme Court. That framing is difficult to reconcile with the history the article...
You Shouldn’t Need a Permit to Pray In Your Own Home — the Supreme Court Should Agree
Brendan Philbin | July 15, 2026 (Fox News- Opinion) A zoning technicality is being used to lock Americans out of court when the government chills their First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court should put a stop to it. When the government threatens you for exercising a constitutional right, can it...
Conservatives urge Congress to pass constitutional amendment keeping Supreme Court at nine justices
The Washington Examiner | July 13, 2026 EXCLUSIVE — A coalition of conservatives and legal groups sent a letter to Congress on Monday urging lawmakers to pass the “Keep 9” constitutional amendment to curb Democrats’ threats of adding additional justices to the Supreme Court. The Constitution does not set the...
New Mexico law puts donor privacy in Supreme Court spotlight
Piñon Post | July 8, 2026 (Piñon Post) A new piece in The Federalist is putting national attention on a New Mexico campaign finance law that critics say forces civic groups to choose between speaking about elected officials and exposing private donors to the government. The article, written by Marc...
8 years after Janus, unions are still trying to keep workers in the dark
Aaron Withe | July 6, 2026 (The Hill) Last month, we marked eight years since the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that public employees cannot be forced to pay union dues as a condition of keeping their jobs. Until then, those dues had been mandatory for millions of...
Trump threatened 100% tariffs on Europe. Here’s why nobody flinched
Elisabeth Buchwald | June 26, 2026 (CNN) A year ago, when President Donald Trump threatened sky-high tariffs on nearly everything coming from everywhere, global markets trembled and foreign leaders scrambled. Now the same threat barely registers. That’s largely thanks to a February Supreme Court ruling that stripped the president of...
US tariff refunds rush into company accounts ahead of deadline this week: ‘Never thought this day would come’
Lisa Fickenscher | June 29, 2026 (New York Post) A slew of US companies are getting financial windfalls this week as the federal government rushes to disburse billions in tariff refunds before the end of June, sources tell The Post. On Monday morning, Boca Raton-based Basic Fun – maker of...
California continues to violate SCOTUS, Constitution with gender ideology laws
Michaela Estruth | June 29, 2026 (The Lion) The state of California will require at least one all-gender bathroom in every school district, county office of education and charter school with any combination of grades 1-12 beginning Wednesday, July 1. The state’s bill requires the all-gender bathrooms to be “unlocked,...
A New York Bill Protects Unions, Not Workers
Aaron Withe | June 14, 2026 (Wall Street Journal) Regarding your editorial “A New York Union Protection Act” (Review & Outlook, June 9): I run the Freedom Foundation, the organization that New York is trying to shut down. Assembly Bill A10835A makes it illegal to “falsely impersonate” a union representative....
Op-ed: America’s Constitution Still Knows How to Say No
Sara Albrecht | 06/24/2026 (National Review) The tariff case, the Supreme Court’s final decisions of the term, and the nation’s Semiquincentennial all point to the same lesson: liberty depends on limits. In a few days, the Supreme Court will release its final decisions of the term. Commentators will immediately begin...
Unions still haven’t accepted Janus
Mark Janus | June 23, 2026 (Washington Examiner) On June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court decided Janus v. AFSCME, overturning Abood v. Detroit Board of Education and restoring First Amendment rights to millions of public-sector workers. The decision was simple but profound: Government employees cannot be forced to subsidize a...
NY unions put a target on my back — for helping their members escape
Aaron Withe | June 17, 2026 (New York Post) I run the organization New York is trying to shut down. A few days ago, at the tail end of its legislative session, Albany lawmakers passed a bill giving Attorney General Letitia James sweeping new powers to investigate and fine any...
How a Conservative Nonprofit Won a Huge Case Against Trump and Suffered for It
Lydia Wheeler | June 16, 2026 (Wall Street Journal) Liberty Justice Center lost donors because it successfully challenged the president’s global tariffs Sara Albrecht’s conservative nonprofit spent $3.5 million challenging the legality of President Trump’s global tariffs, and the gamble appeared ready to pay off when the Supreme Court signaled...
Sitting Judge Posts ‘F*** ICE’: The Shocking Double Standard of Illinois Courts
Sara Albrecht | July 23, 2026 (Washington Examiner-Op-Eds) Cook County Circuit Judge Cynthia Ramirez posted two words about a federal law enforcement agency on social media: “F*** ICE.” Ramirez is a sitting judge. Yet, as of this writing, the Illinois bar associations that demanded Judge James R. Brown’s removal over...