LJC In The News
‘A Loss for the American Economy’ – Jeffrey Schwab Discusses Filing Major Lawsuit on the Imposition of Tariffs
(Mackinac Center for Public Policy)—Can a president unilaterally impose tariffs on nearly every imported good, bypassing Congress? That’s the question at the heart of a discussion with Jeffrey Schwab, Senior Counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, on the Overton Window Podcast. “We filed a lawsuit called VOS Selections v. Trump....
Chicago Teachers Union Spends $2.1M on Losing School Board Candidates
(Illinois Policy)—Under the leadership of President Stacy Davis Gates and Vice President Jackson Potter, the Chicago Teachers Union and its affiliates have become the No. 1 spender on Chicago politics. But there is growing evidence the union’s spending is becoming a drag, rather than a boost, for candidates in competitive...
Small Toymaker – Whose Business Was Blown Up By Tariffs – Fights Back
(Forbes)—David Levi began designing an educational electronic musical toy kit in 2020. Initially, he made batches of a few hundred at a time and sold them on Amazon. As sales grew, he rented a workshop and small warehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, bought some light production machines, and hired his first...
Trump’s ‘Emergencies’ Are Pretexts for Undermining the Constitution
(Lawfare)—The Trump administration has exhibited a dangerous pattern of invoking spurious emergencies to undermine the Constitution, threatening liberty and circumventing Congress. This is most evident in the fields of immigration and trade policy. If not stopped, or at least curtailed, these policies could harm millions of people, imperil civil liberties,...
Opinion: Fight For School Choice in Texas Isn’t Over. The Next Front Will Be the Courts
(Fort Worth Star Telegram)—Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed a historical school choice bill into law, making Texas the latest — and largest — state to embrace school choice. The new education savings accounts, or ESAs, will empower the parents of some of the state’s six million school-aged children to choose...
Tariff Folly
(Stossel-TV)—Last month, President Donald Trump proudly announced, “Liberation Day! … The day American industry was reborn!” Reborn because of his tariffs, which he called, “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” This is just wrong. The first time he was president, Trump raised tariffs on steel. That helped American steelmakers....
Plaintiffs Await Ruling in Court Case Challenging Tariffs; Another Case Pending
(The Center Square)—Several small business owners now await a ruling from a federal court on the legality of the slate of tariffs President Donald Trump announced on April 2. “Trump made a bad business decision, and he needs to reverse it immediately before there are some really big, bad consequences...
Trump’s Tariffs Could Face Long Odds Before Supreme Court He Reshaped
(CBS News)—Legal challenges to President Trump’s tariffs could put the president on a collision course with a Supreme Court that he shaped, as his use of emergency power to unilaterally impose the levies could run into legal doctrines championed by the conservative justices to limit executive authority. Several things have...
Arguments Heard in Court Case That Aims To Have Trump’s Tariffs Kiboshed
(ASI Central)—A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade in New York heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that aims to have President Donald Trump’s import tariffs abolished. Liberty Justice Center, a Libertarian public interest law firm representing five U.S. small businesses, argued that Trump lacks the legal authority...
CIT Judges Sharply Question Legality of Reciprocal Tariffs During Hearing
(Trade Law Daily)—The Court of International Trade on May 13 heard arguments in the lead case on the president’s ability to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Judges Jane Restani, Gary Katzmann and Timothy Reif pressed counsel for the plaintiffs, the Liberty Justice Center’s Jeffrey Schwab, and...
Trump Tariff Rollbacks Undermine Legal Justification, Court Told
(Agri-Pulse)—Legal representatives for a group of small businesses challenging President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs at the Court of International Trade argued that the administration’s tariff pause undermines its claim that the newduties are necessary to remedy an economic emergency. The president declared an economic emergency in his April 2 executive...
Trump’s Tariffs Face Legal Challenges
(Altoona Mirror)—President Donald Trump is waging a trade war without getting approval from Congress: He declared a national emergency to slap import taxes — tariffs — on almost every country on earth. The president is now facing at least seven lawsuits that argue he’s gone too far and asserted power...
Trump’s Authority to Declare Tariffs ‘Emergency’ Challenged in First Court Hearing
(Washington Exmainer)—President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariff policy faced its first full hearing in court on Tuesday after a group of small businesses challenged the president’s authority to issue the levies. The hearing in the U.S. Court of International Trade was the first test of Trump’s claim that a law known...
Trade Court Takes Up Legality of Trump’s Tariffs
(Capital Press)—President Trump’s tariffs were in court May 13 as the U.S. Court of International Trade held the first hearing on the legality of the president’s tool for reshaping U.S. trade policy. Numerous lawsuits, including one filed in the same court by a blue-state coalition led by Oregon Attorney General...
Trump’s Global Tariffs Face Key Test in US Trade Court
(Bloomberg)—A group of small businesses urged the US trade court to block President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” global tariffs during a court hearing that could have a major impact on the Republican’s economic agenda. Lawyers for the businesses and the Trump administration on Tuesday delivered arguments before the US Court...