LJC In The News
Small Businesses Sue Trump Administration Over Authority To Impose Tariffs
(CNN)—A group of US businesses filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The suit was filed in the US Court of International Trade by the Liberty Justice Center, a legal advocacy group arguing on behalf of five...
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Justification for Tariffs
(PYMNTS)—The Trump administration’s justification for its tariffs is being challenged by a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade on behalf of five small businesses. The Liberty Justice Center said in a Monday (April 14) press release that it filed the suit arguing that the administration has no...
Businesses Sue Trump Admin Over ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
(The Center Square)—A nonprofit public-interest litigation firm filed a lawsuit Monday alleging President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs require congressional approval. The Liberty Justice Center, based in Texas, challenged the administration’s reciprocal tariffs, which Trump announced on April 2 and suspended on April 9, hours after they went into effect....
‘We’re Costing People Jobs:’ Tennessee Business Owner Says Trump Tariffs On Wrong Track
(WTVC)—The Liberty Justice Center is challenging the Trump Administration’s authority to unilaterally issue tariffs in a lawsuit that claims the tariffs will hurt small businesses. A business owner in Tennessee says he’s already seeing the affects of President Trump’s tariffs, particularly on Chinese imports. Tariffs on Chinese products coming into...
Trump Administration Sued Over Tariffs in US Court of International Trade
(Reuters)—The lawsuit challenges Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariffs, as well as duties he separately levied against China. “No one person should have the power to impose taxes that have such vast global economic consequences,” Liberty Justice Center senior counsel Jeffrey Schwab said in a statement. “The Constitution gives the...
Liberty Justice Center Sues Trump Admin Over “Liberation Day” Tariffs
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center has filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s executive authority to unilaterally impose the “Liberation Day” tariffs, arguing that the tariffs are devastating small businesses and exceed the President’s constitutional powers. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade, targets the administration’s...
Trump Sued Over “Liberation Day” Tariffs
(The Hill)—President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs came under their first major legal challenge Monday, brought by a libertarian public-interest firm that argues the president overstepped his authority. Trump’s April 2 announcement imposed a baseline 10 percent tariff on imports and targeted dozens of countries with higher “reciprocal” tariffs. The announcement...
One Iowa Landowner Fights to Farm a Designated Wetland. Others Could Face Consequences Downstream
(Minnesota Star Tribune)—In northeast Iowa, a wispy stand of trees looks out of place. It is surrounded by crop fields on the north side of a four-lane highway, an oasis of nature that is uncommon in rural Iowa, where farming every inch of land is paramount. Its owner hopes to...
Bootleggers, Cops, and Cars: How Driving Became a Privacy Trap
(Bloomberg Law)—Chief Petty Officer Lee Schmidt was stuck in morning traffic en route from Norfolk, Va., to his job in Virginia Beach when he first noticed the “weird little camera” outside a CVS: an automated license plate reader. Schmidt began seeing the cameras everywhere after that first sighting in late...
Liberty Justice Center and I File Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
(Reason)—Today, the Liberty Justice Center and I filed a lawsuit in the Court of International Trade challenging the legality of Donald Trump’s gargantuan “Liberation Day” tariffs, on behalf of five US businesses that import goods from many of the countries targeted by the tariffs. The case is entitled VOS Selections,...
Appeals Court Revives Parental Rights Challenge Against Chico School District Policy
(Legal Newsline)—The Liberty Justice Center has announced a notable legal development for parental rights. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to overturn a prior court ruling, reinstating Aurora Regino’s case against the Chico Unified School District. The case originated when Regino challenged a policy that allowed school staff...
The Conservative Legal Advocates Working to Kill Trump’s Tariffs
(The New Yorker)—Last summer, when the Supreme Court of the United States jolted the legal system by overruling the landmark Chevron decision, John Vecchione, of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, was one of many conservative legal advocates who celebrated the ruling’s downfall in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. As the...
The Tariff Madness Isn’t Over
(Reason)—When Donald Trump paused many of his awful “Liberation Day” tariffs yesterday, there was some understandable relief. Some even seem to assume the tariff crisis is over. For example, Democratic Senate Leader Charles Schumer, posted on Bluesky that “History will remember April 9, 2025 as America’s actual liberation day—the day...
Legal Challenges Brew for Trump’s Tariffs
(The Dispatch)—Litigation Day. The markets have continued to sour on President Donald Trump’s tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States. Major stock indices have been on successive roller coasters of daily trading, reacting positively to indications the president might relent but then quickly falling after Trump signals he...
Trump Partially Pauses “Liberation Day” Tariffs
(Reason)—Today, Donald Trump partially paused his massive new “Liberation Day” tariffs. However, a whopping 10% tariff on nearly every nation in the world is still going into effect immediately, along with an enormous increase on tariffs for Chinese goods (up to 125%). And the additional massive “reciprocity” tariffs are only...