LJC In The News
Meet the Small-Business Owner Suing Trump Over Tariffs
(The Washington Post)—After a long day promoting her new cookbook, entrepreneur Emily Ley sank into her couch and began writing about the threat that President Donald Trump’s tariffs posed to her nine-person company. Ley sells high-end paper planners, advice books and other office staples online and at major stores such...
Bally’s Drops Racial Preferences for Chicago Casino IPO
(Loop North News)—Bally’s has decided to drop racial limitations from its planned $250 million initial public offering (IPO) for its $1.7 billion Chicago casino project. Following lawsuits by the Liberty Justice Center and the American Alliance for Equal Rights, Bally’s acknowledged that the initial requirements limited investment opportunities mainly to...
CTU Can’t Quickly Pull Plug on Lawsuit Demanding Release of Years of Missing Audited Financials
(Cook County Record)—The politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union can’t escape a lawsuit accusing them of violating their members’ rights by refusing to release years’ worth of financial audits, allegedly in breach of their own governing rules. On May 14, a Cook County judge rejected the CTU’s bid to dismiss the...
Cook County Judge Rejects Chicago Teachers Union’s Attempt to Dismiss Audit Transparency Lawsuit
(Chicago City Wire)—A Cook County judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) can proceed, rejecting the union’s attempt to have the case dismissed. The lawsuit, Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, was filed in October 2024 by longtime CTU member and CPS social worker Philip Weiss...
Victory for Chicago Educators: Court Rules in Favor of Financial Transparency in Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, Permitting Case to Move Forward
(Wirepoints)—The Circuit Court of Cook County has ruled in favor of the Liberty Justice Center in Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union—denying CTU’s motion to dismiss the case and marking a significant milestone for union members seeking greater financial transparency and accountability from their leadership. The lawsuit, brought by CTU members...
Transparency Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Clears Hurdle As Judge Denies Dismissal
(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 Union, marks a...
A Simple Defense of Nationwide Injunctions
(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 or local government....
Which Way, CTU? Election Tests Union’s Strategy and Solidarity
(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. Davis Gates’ opponent for...
‘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...