LJC In The News
Transparency Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Clears Hurdle As Judge Denies Dismissal
Author: Mike Jenkins (Tampa Free Press)—A lawsuit demanding financial transparency from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) can proceed after a Cook County Circuit Court judge denied the union’s motion to dismiss the case. The ruling, handed down by Judge David B. Atkins in the case of Weiss v. Chicago Teachers...
A Simple Defense of Nationwide Injunctions
Author: Ilya Somin (Reason)—The main issue addressed in yesterday’s birthright citizenship oral argument before the Supreme Court was whether federal courts should have the power to issue nationwide injunctions against illegal government policies, as opposed to injunctions limited to the parties to the case, or perhaps to a particular state...
Which Way, CTU? Election Tests Union’s Strategy and Solidarity
Author: Nell Salzman (Chicago Tribune)—A group of dissenting educators was challenging Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and her squad in a union election Friday. The opposition slate argues that the current leadership’s bullish nature doesn’t allow for dissenting voices, lacks financial transparency and has shed union allies....
‘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
Author: Lauren Zuar (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...
Small Toymaker – Whose Business Was Blown Up By Tariffs – Fights Back
Author: Steve Banker (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...
Trump’s ‘Emergencies’ Are Pretexts for Undermining the Constitution
Author: Ilya Somin (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,...
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
Author: John Stossel (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...
Plaintiffs Await Ruling in Court Case Challenging Tariffs; Another Case Pending
Author: Morgan Sweeney (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...
Trump’s Tariffs Could Face Long Odds Before Supreme Court He Reshaped
Author: Melissa Quinn (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....
Arguments Heard in Court Case That Aims To Have Trump’s Tariffs Kiboshed
Author: Christopher Ruvo (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...
CIT Judges Sharply Question Legality of Reciprocal Tariffs During Hearing
Author: Jacob Kopnick (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...
Trump Tariff Rollbacks Undermine Legal Justification, Court Told
Author: Oliver Ward (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...
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...