LJC In The News
Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s New Tariff Plan
Jacob Sullum | March 12, 2026 (Chicago Sun Times) The Liberty Justice Center also spearheaded the legal challenge that defeated President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs. President Donald Trump’s original plan for addressing the purported threat posed by the long-standing U.S. trade deficit, which the Supreme Court rejected...
LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Illinois Supreme Court’s removal of recalled judge spurs lawsuit, (Feb 24, 2026)
Patricia K. Ruiz, J.D. | February 24, 2026 (Vital Law) The Liberty Justice Center alleges the judge was removed in retaliation for his political commentary while he was a private citizen. The Liberty Justice Center has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of retired Cook County Judge James...
Judge confident in case against Illinois Supreme Court justices
Jim Talamonti | February 20, 2026 (The Center Square) A retired Cook County judge says he has great confidence in his case against justices of the Illinois Supreme Court. The Liberty Justice Center filed the civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on...
Lawsuit claims Act 73 narrows tuition school choice
Guy Page | March 9, 2026 (Vermont Daily Chronicle) A national public-interest law firm has filed a lawsuit challenging a new Vermont law that restricts which independent schools families can choose under the state’s longstanding town tuitioning system. The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) announced March 2 that it has sued...
New Lawsuit Challenges Restrictions on School Choice in Vermont’s Education Reform Law
Associated Press | March 4, 2026 (U.S. News and World Report) Two parents from Georgia, Vermont, have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s education reform law, claiming it arbitrarily violates their children’s access to private school and limits their educational opportunity. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Washington County Superior...
Group That Defeated Trump’s Tariffs at Supreme Court Challenges Latest Round
Zach Schonfeld | March 9, 2026 (The Hill) A libertarian public-interest firm that helped topple President Trump’s emergency tariffs at the Supreme Court sued him Monday over his new levies, contending they also are illegal. “This Court has been down this road before,” Liberty Justice Center wrote in its complaint....
Small Businesses Mount Legal Challenge to Trump Latest Global Tariffs
Dietrich Knauth | March 09, 2026 Reuters NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) – Two small businesses on Monday sued the Trump administration over its latest round of tariffs,
New lawsuit challenges restrictions on school choice in Vermont’s education reform law
Corey McDonald | March 3, 2026 Two parents from Georgia, Vermont, have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s education reform law, claiming it arbitrarily violates their children’s access to private school and limits their educational opportunity. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Washington County Superior Court, centers on Vermont’s publicly...
SCOTUS answers emergency request to protect parental rights, forbid schools’ secret gender transitions in California case
Michaela Estruth | March 3, 2026 (The Lion) The U.S. Supreme Court protected parental rights in a “landmark” preliminary ruling Monday – prohibiting schools from socially transitioning children in secret. The ruling answered an emergency application from the Thomas More Society asking the court to intervene in Mirabelli v. Bonta,...
U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Historic, Groundbreaking Victory for Parental Rights, Dismantles California’s Secret Gender Transition Regime
Supreme Court rules that California cannot hide children’s gender transitions from parents; landmark decision protects parental rights nationwide Katie Clancy | March 2, 2026 (Thomas More Society) Washington, D.C. – In a historic and groundbreaking ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted the Thomas More Society’s emergency application in Mirabelli...
High Court defends parents, kids in blocking Newsom transgender law
Sonja Shaw | March 2, 2026 (New York Post) The Supreme Court made the right decision Monday to block Gavin Newsom’s insane law barring schools from informing parents whose children say they want to change genders. The court’s decision is only a preliminary one, but the final outcome is now...
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...