LJC In The News
Why Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs are Illegal
(Reason)—Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced his gargantuan “Liberation Day” tariffs. They impose 10% tariffs on imports from almost every nation in the world (with the notable exception of Russia), plus additional “reciprocity” tariffs on some 60 additional countries, based on an utterly nonsensical formula that isn’t actually about reciprocity at...
Looking for Plaintiffs to Challenge Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs in Court
(Reason)—I have previously written about how Trump’s abusive use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) to start a massive trade war can be challenged under the major questions and nondelegation doctrines. See also this analysis by Georgetown law Prof. Jennifer Hillman. The Liberty Justice Center, a...
SEC Puts Final Nail in Climate Rule Coffin
(National Legal and Policy Center)—Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that it will not defend its controversial climate disclosure rule, thus handing a victory to the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), which was a plaintiff in a...
Police License Plate Recordings Are Not Unconstitutional Searches, Federal Judge Finds
(CWB Chicago)—A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two Cook County residents who claimed that a network of license plate readers operated by the state amounts to the unlawful search of motorists. Automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, are widely used by government and private entities to record the...
Illinois Automated License Plate Reader Camera Scans Aren’t Unconstitutional Searches, Judge Says
(Cook County Record)—A federal judge has curbed, for now, a class action lawsuit that seeks to put an end to the widespread and growing use by police in Illinois of automated license plate reader systems to combat crime, which the plaintiffs say amounts to unconstitutional high tech “dragnet surveillance” against...
Federal Judge in Iowa Swampbuster Case Questions if Dispute is Just a Miscommunication
(Des Moines Register)—A federal judge has heard oral arguments in a case that could overturn a decades-old statute tying wetland conservation to federal farm benefit eligibility. The plaintiff CTM Holdings, which owns and rents land to Iowa farmers, sued over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “swampbuster” law, alleging its implementation...
Nebraska Supreme Court To Hear Challenge Against Lincoln’s Gun Ban Amid “Constitutional Carry” Clash
(Tampa Free Press)—The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in a high-profile legal battle over gun rights, as the Liberty Justice Center challenges Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird’s executive order banning firearms on city property, including public parks and trails. The case pits local authority against newly established...
Wyoming Doctor Appeals After Being Fired From Board For Opposing Child Gender Transitions
(Read Lion)—A Wyoming doctor forced off the state’s medical board after supporting a ban on gender transition procedures is continuing to fight his way through the courts – filing a federal appeal last week. Dr. Eric Cubin, a Wyoming radiologist, was reportedly forced to resign from the Wyoming Board of...
‘Swampbuster’ Case Over Wetland Conservation Rules Heard in Federal Court
(Iowa Capital Dispatch)—A federal judge heard oral arguments Monday for a case that could overturn a decades-old statute tying wetland conservation to federal farm benefit eligibility. The plaintiff CTM Holdings, which owns and rents land to Iowa farmers, sued over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “swampbuster” law, alleging its implementation...
Iowa Landowner’s Lawsuit Taking Aim at Longstanding Wetlands Rule Could Have Sweeping Effect
(Des Moines Register)—Southwest Iowa farmer Seth Watkins thinks taxpayers should be able to expect that U.S. growers who get billions of dollars annually in federal support will provide environmental benefits such as preserving wetlands that can help prevent devastating floods. But northeast Iowa landowner Jim Conlan is challenging that concept,...
California School Board Members Praise Trump Admin’s Probe Into State Allegedly Hiding Kids’ ‘Gender Identity’
(FOX News)—Some California school board members are rejoicing after the U.S. Department of Education are looking into the state’s effort to curb parental notification policies. “We warned [Gavin] Newsom,” Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Board President Sonja Shaw told Fox News Digital. “I am a mother and a school...
Trump’s Order Ending Union Contracts Ripe for Legal Challenge
(Bloomberg Law)—The Trump administration’s attempt to leverage a little-used law covering national security-related workers in order to cancel union contracts across the federal workforce is poised to draw lawsuits claiming it was misapplied to hundreds of thousands of government employees. President Donald Trump on Thursday night directed dozens of federal...
SEC Retracts Defense of Contested Climate Rules in Legal Case
(Legal Newsline)—The Liberty Justice Center has achieved a notable victory in the legal case against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding climate change rules. The SEC announced it will cease defending the controversial regulations challenged in the case, marking a pivotal moment for free speech and limiting governmental overreach....
Federal Hearing to Take Up Hotly Debated Issue of Wetlands Protections
(The New Lede)—In a court hearing that could have implications for the fate of federal protections for US wetlands, lawyers for an Iowa farmland owner will face off on Monday against the federal government and environmental advocates over the constitutionality of the Farm Bill’s hotly debated “Swampbuster” law. The hearing...
Radiologist Takes Fight Over Free Speech, Mutilation of Children to Appeals Court
(World Net Daily)—A radiologist who voiced, to state lawmakers, his personal objections to the damage inflicted on children, including bodily mutilations, by transgender “treatments,” and was dismissed from a state board over his beliefs, is taking his fight over free speech to an appeals court. “The record in this case...