LJC In The News
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...
Trump Admin Seeks to Limit Billions in Tariff Refunds
James Morely III | June 9, 2026 (Newsmax) The Trump administration is defending its effort to limit refunds of billions of dollars in tariffs that were collected before the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime earlier this year. The dispute centers on whether the government must...
CPS CEO Macquline King Defends District in Testimony Before GOP-Led Congressional Committee
Author: Matt Masterson Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King defended the school district in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday amid congressional criticism of CPS support for trans students and “ideological agendas.” King testified Wednesday at a hearing titled “Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America’s...
The Illinois Bar vs. Free Speech
Illinois punishes a state judge who wrote a pro-Trump op-ed. The Editorial Board | June 5, 2026 (The Wall Street Journal) Free speech is under assault in many places these days, but traffic court? Leave it to Illinois, where the state Supreme Court kicked a Cook County judge off the...
600 California schools accused of secretly ‘transitioning’ children behind parents’ backs
Attorneys for a group of concerned parents warned that schools hiding a child’s request to change names, pronouns, or gender identity at school from parents burden their constitutional rights. LifeSiteNews Staff | June 3, 2026 (LifeSiteNews) An attorney group sent a letter on behalf of a group of concerned parents...
Opinion: When Small Businesses Defended the US’s Constitutional Order
Sara Albrecht | June 9, 2026 (FDI Intelligence) It has become fashionable, especially outside the US, to question whether American democracy still works. I understand why. Our politics are loud, our institutions are tested constantly and our disagreements often spill into public view in ways that can look chaotic, even...
Law firm: California’s Gender Policies Violate Constitution
Chris Woodward | June 2, 2026 (The Center Square) Nonprofit tells Bonta that schools are violating First, 14th Amendments by hiding students’ gender transitions A law firm is putting California Attorney General Rob Bonta on notice about keeping parents in the dark about their children’s gender transitions. Liberty Justice Center...
New Parental Rights Watchdog Warns California Attorney General to Follow the Constitution
Tim Snowball | June 2, 2026 (Los Angeles Daily News) On June 2, 2026, Liberty Justice Center’s new Parental Action and Rights Enforcement to ensure Notice, Transparency and Safety initiative (PARENTS) sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta demanding he advise approximately 600 school districts to comply with...