LJC In The News
Vermont’s Two-Century-Old School Choice Tradition Hits A Legal Wall As Families Sue Over Act 73
Mike Jenkins | March 2, 2026 A new legal battle is brewing over the future of education in Vermont as the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging Act 73, a 2025 law that significantly narrows the state’s long-standing town tuitioning system. For over 200 years, this program has allowed...
‘We were right’: He took Trump’s tariffs to the Supreme Court and won
Schwartz said he is focused on moving forward and receiving the “government’s refund of these improperly collected taxes” Amanda Macias | February 22, 2026 (Fox Business) Victor Owen Schwartz never imagined he would one day find himself challenging a president in the highest court in the land. But after President...
Who is Victor Schwartz? Wine Importer Who Beat Trump at the Supreme Court
Gabe Whisnant | February 20, 2026 (Newsweek) Victor Schwartz, a New York wine importer, was a lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, delivering a major legal setback to one of the president’s signature economic policies. The 6‑3 ruling found that...
A U.S.-based wine importer reacts to his Supreme Court victory against Trump’s tariffs
Tyler Bartlam, Christopher Intagliata, and Scott Detrow, featuring Victor Owen Schwartz | February 20, 2026 (NPR) NPR’s Scott Detrow talks with Victor Schwartz, founder of New-York-based wine importer VOS Selections, about prevailing at the Supreme Court in his case against some of President Trump’s tariffs. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In...
Interview: Neal Katyal & Sara Albrecht on 6-3 SCOTUS strike down of IEEPA Tariffs.
(MS Now) In this interview, MS Now hears the reactions of Former U.S. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, who argued against the tariffs in this case before the Supreme Court, and Liberty Justice Center Chairman Sara Albrecht on the 6-3 SCOTUS Tariffs decision, which upheld the rule of law and...
Wine Importer Who Sued Over Tariffs Says Ruling Is Like Winning a ‘Gold Medal’
Ruth Simon | February 20, 2026 (Wall Street Journal) Victor Owen Schwartz, a small wine importer and distributor, is the lead plaintiff in one of the tariff lawsuits. He was sitting at his dining room table with his wife when the Supreme Court ruling came in. To continue reading this...
Burlington Company Helps Topple Trump’s Tariffs
Colin Flanders | February 20, 2026 (Seven Days) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, a final ruling in a case that originated with a lawsuit brought by a Burlington-based women’s cycling gear company. Terry Precision Cycling was one of five American businesses waging...
While corporate America stayed silent, a small wine importer risked his business to challenge Trump’s tariffs
Elisabeth Buchwald | February 21, 2026 (CNN Business) When President Donald Trump announced plans to raise the nation’s effective tariff rate to levels not seen since 1930 last year, most CEOs were silent. They’d seen how opposing the president’s ambitions – let alone his signature economic policy – could prove...
Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs
Doug Palmer, Josh Gerstein, and Daniel Desrochers | February 20, 2026 (Politico) The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs — a major repudiation of a core piece of Trump’s economic program. The 6-3 decision is a rare instance of the conservative-led court reining in Trump’s...
Opinion: Transparency isn’t a political attack — it’s a public obligation
Sara Albrecht | February 20, 2026 (Crain’s Chicago Business) Chicago Teachers Union leaders would like the public to believe that recent federal scrutiny of their finances is part of a right-wing conspiracy — an attack on educators, students, and social justice itself. That framing may be effective rally rhetoric. It...
Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Global Tariffs
James Romoser and Gavin Bade | February 20, 2026 (The Wall Street Journal) Ruling finds president exceeded his powers by imposing duties without clear congressional authorization; Trump says he is ‘ashamed’ of certain justices WASHINGTON—President Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, in a stinging repudiation of...
Interview: Bloomberg: Sara Albrecht on Supreme Court Tariff Case Victory
(Bloomberg Podcasts) In this interview, Sara Albrecht, Liberty Justice Center Chair, joins Bloomberg Podcasts to discuss the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling limiting the president’s use of the International Emergency Powers Act to impose broad tariffs. Liberty Justice Center challenged the administration’s reliance on emergency powers to implement sweeping trade levies...
Judge Sues Illinois Supreme Court Justices Over Removal He Calls First Amendment ‘Retaliation’
Tim Hecke | 2/19/2026 CWB Chicago A retired Cook County judge who was recalled to the bench late last year to help manage the county’s crushing caseload backlog, only to be dumped by the state Supreme Court six weeks later over an opinion column he wrote as a private citizen,...
Supreme Court Petitioned to Hear Tennessee Open Meetings Case
Kim Jarrett | Feb. 17, 2026 (The Center Square) An open meetings law case involving the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission and The Center Square has been requested for hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court. Liberty Justice Center, a national nonprofit law firm, filed on behalf of Dan McCaleb, chief content...
Penn State forces faculty to become DEI zealots to get promoted, wine scientist’s lawsuit say
Greg Piper | February 11, 2026 (Just the News) – Want a promotion in a Pennsylvania State University agricultural program? Be prepared to wax poetic on going above and beyond to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). That’s the narrative in a First and 14th Amendment lawsuit by a wine-science...