LJC In The News
Disarming Millions of Americans Simply Because They Use Marijuana Is Unconstitutional, a SCOTUS Brief Says
Jacob Sullum | January 28, 2026 (Reason) Judging from federal survey data, nearly a quarter of Americans 18 or older used marijuana in 2024, while 16 percent reported using it during the previous month. Those numbers suggest that somewhere between 43 million and 62 million Americans are disqualified from gun...
US Supreme Court Asked to Decide if Casual Pot Use Should Cost You Your Gun Rights
Mike Jenkins | January 28, 2026 (Tampa Free Press) A major legal battle is heating up in the nation’s capital that could impact tens of millions of Americans. The Liberty Justice Center filed a supporting legal brief this week in the case of United States v. Hemani, urging the U.S....
U.S. Department of Education Finds California Department of Education Violated Federal Law by Hiding Students’ “Gender Transitions” from Parents
U.S. Department of Education | January 28, 2026 (U.S. Department of Education) Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) found that the California Department of Education (CDE) is in continued violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)—a federal law granting parents the right...
Parents Or Privacy? Supreme Court Asked To Weigh In On California School Gender Policies
Mike Jenkins | January 22, 2026 (Tampa Free Press) The intensifying legal battle over the rights of parents versus the privacy of students in California public schools is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Thursday, the Liberty Justice Center (LJC) announced it has filed a “friend of the court”...
Legal Group Urges Supreme Court to Block Massive Fines Against California Church
Mike Jenkins | January 15, 2026 (Tampa Free Press) A legal advocacy group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a high-stakes financial battle between a California county and a local church, arguing that million-dollar fines for COVID-19 violations are unconstitutional now that the underlying restrictions have been...
2 Illinois Election Board Democrats Who Blocked Senate President Don Harmon Fines Have Ties to His Donors
By Rick Pearson | December 14, 2025 (Chicago Tribune) Two Democratic members of the Illinois State Board of Elections who helped block nearly $10 million in campaign fines against Democratic Senate President Don Harmon have political ties to organizations that contributed disputed, above-limit donations to Harmon and continued giving to...
UA Professor Sues Board of Regents, Alleging DEI Retaliation and Committee Blacklisting
By Matthew Holloway | Dec. 8, 2025 (AZ Free News) University of Arizona (UA) English professor Dr. Matthew Abraham has filed a federal lawsuit alleging he was blacklisted from key faculty-governance committees after raising concerns about DEI-driven hiring practices within his department. The complaint, filed Nov. 25 in the U.S....
Supreme Court Urged To Decide If Diverting Water In California Counts As Government ‘Theft’
Leslie Bolden | Dec. 3, 2025 (Tampa Free Press) A legal battle over California water rights has reached the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court, raising a fundamental constitutional question: When the government commandeers water for environmental reasons, is it merely regulating a resource or physically seizing private property? The...
BRENDAN PHILBIN: Public Schools are Failing Students by Obstructing Free Speech Rights
Brendan Philbin | Dec. 4, 2025 (Human Events) By silencing critics, pushing politics, or imposing beliefs, school districts fail in their central mission of education. And the means of failure are unconstitutional. Across the United States, public school districts bear an immense responsibility: preparing young people to be informed, thoughtful...
University Of Arizona Professor Sues, Claims ‘Blacklist’ For Questioning DEI Hiring
Author: Leslie Bolden | Dec.1, 2025 (Tampa Free Press) A tenured professor at the University of Arizona has slapped the Arizona Board of Regents with a federal lawsuit, alleging he was secretly “blacklisted” from key faculty committees as retaliation for challenging what he viewed as illegal, race-based hiring practices. The...
CTU to cooperate with Congressional inquiry over allegations of missing audits
By: Tahman Bradley and Ethan Illers | November 25, 2025 CHICAGO (WGN-TV) – The Chicago Teachers Union is at the center of a Capitol Hill probe and is now cooperating with a Congressional inquiry into its finances regarding whether the CTU has been keeping financial audits from members. The Republican-controlled...
Federal probe demands Chicago Teachers Union explain missing financial audits since 2020
Senate President Don Harmon Faces New Challenge Over Near-$10M Campaign Finance Fine
Author: Rick Pearson | November 17, 2025 (Chicago Tribune) Illinois Senate President Don Harmon is facing a new challenge over a State Board of Elections staff finding that his campaign committee owes $9.8 million in fines for accepting campaign contributions in excess of state limitations. The libertarian-leaning Liberty Justice Center,...
Interview: College Admission Discrimination Still Exists
(Washington Times) In this interview, Reilly Stephens, Senior Counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, sits down with Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler on Politically Unstable to discuss the case, Jakiche v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico and College Admissions Discrimination. Video by Washington Times Learn...
Policies with Chilling Effect on Public Comment Scrapped in Monroe Lawsuit Settlement
Lucas Thomae | February 2, 2026 (Carolina Public Press) Union County, NC, city had required speakers to publicly state addresses. Legal challenge to public comment rule led to settlement nixing it. A Charlotte-area resident has settled a free speech lawsuit against the City of Monroe and its mayor, whose public...