LJC In The News
Teacher says Penn State denied her promotion over DEI views
Liz Lykins | February 10, 2026 (wng.org) When teacher of wine and winemaking Molly Kelly tried to get a promotion at Penn State University Extension School, officials told her that she needed to do more diversity work. So the enology educator reached out to LGBTQ and Greek Orthodox–owned businesses, visiting...
Lawsuit accuses University of New Mexico of discriminating against White medical school applicant
Sean Salai | October 31, 2025 (Washington Times) A former top-scoring medical school applicant has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that accuses the University of New Mexico of rejecting him because he is White. In a complaint filed Tuesday in the District Court of New Mexico, Michael Jakiche says...
Pennsylvania State University Sued Over DEI-Driven Promotion Denials
Danielle Shockey | February 5, 2026 (Tampa Free Press) A veteran wine educator at Pennsylvania State University is taking her employer to federal court, alleging that her professional advancement was derailed not by a lack of expertise, but by her refusal to embrace the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)...
Disarming Millions of Americans Simply Because They Use Marijuana Is Unconstitutional, a SCOTUS Brief Says
Jacob Sullum | January 28, 2026 (Reason) Judging from federal survey data, nearly a quarter of Americans 18 or older used marijuana in 2024, while 16 percent reported using it during the previous month. Those numbers suggest that somewhere between 43 million and 62 million Americans are disqualified from gun...
US Supreme Court Asked to Decide if Casual Pot Use Should Cost You Your Gun Rights
Mike Jenkins | January 28, 2026 (Tampa Free Press) A major legal battle is heating up in the nation’s capital that could impact tens of millions of Americans. The Liberty Justice Center filed a supporting legal brief this week in the case of United States v. Hemani, urging the U.S....
U.S. Department of Education Finds California Department of Education Violated Federal Law by Hiding Students’ “Gender Transitions” from Parents
U.S. Department of Education | January 28, 2026 (U.S. Department of Education) Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) found that the California Department of Education (CDE) is in continued violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)—a federal law granting parents the right...
Parents Or Privacy? Supreme Court Asked To Weigh In On California School Gender Policies
Mike Jenkins | January 22, 2026 (Tampa Free Press) The intensifying legal battle over the rights of parents versus the privacy of students in California public schools is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Thursday, the Liberty Justice Center (LJC) announced it has filed a “friend of the court”...
Legal Group Urges Supreme Court to Block Massive Fines Against California Church
Mike Jenkins | January 15, 2026 (Tampa Free Press) A legal advocacy group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a high-stakes financial battle between a California county and a local church, arguing that million-dollar fines for COVID-19 violations are unconstitutional now that the underlying restrictions have been...
2 Illinois Election Board Democrats Who Blocked Senate President Don Harmon Fines Have Ties to His Donors
By Rick Pearson | December 14, 2025 (Chicago Tribune) Two Democratic members of the Illinois State Board of Elections who helped block nearly $10 million in campaign fines against Democratic Senate President Don Harmon have political ties to organizations that contributed disputed, above-limit donations to Harmon and continued giving to...
UA Professor Sues Board of Regents, Alleging DEI Retaliation and Committee Blacklisting
By Matthew Holloway | Dec. 8, 2025 (AZ Free News) University of Arizona (UA) English professor Dr. Matthew Abraham has filed a federal lawsuit alleging he was blacklisted from key faculty-governance committees after raising concerns about DEI-driven hiring practices within his department. The complaint, filed Nov. 25 in the U.S....
Supreme Court Urged To Decide If Diverting Water In California Counts As Government ‘Theft’
Leslie Bolden | Dec. 3, 2025 (Tampa Free Press) A legal battle over California water rights has reached the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court, raising a fundamental constitutional question: When the government commandeers water for environmental reasons, is it merely regulating a resource or physically seizing private property? The...
BRENDAN PHILBIN: Public Schools are Failing Students by Obstructing Free Speech Rights
Brendan Philbin | Dec. 4, 2025 (Human Events) By silencing critics, pushing politics, or imposing beliefs, school districts fail in their central mission of education. And the means of failure are unconstitutional. Across the United States, public school districts bear an immense responsibility: preparing young people to be informed, thoughtful...
University Of Arizona Professor Sues, Claims ‘Blacklist’ For Questioning DEI Hiring
Author: Leslie Bolden | Dec.1, 2025 (Tampa Free Press) A tenured professor at the University of Arizona has slapped the Arizona Board of Regents with a federal lawsuit, alleging he was secretly “blacklisted” from key faculty committees as retaliation for challenging what he viewed as illegal, race-based hiring practices. The...
CTU to cooperate with Congressional inquiry over allegations of missing audits
By: Tahman Bradley and Ethan Illers | November 25, 2025 CHICAGO (WGN-TV) – The Chicago Teachers Union is at the center of a Capitol Hill probe and is now cooperating with a Congressional inquiry into its finances regarding whether the CTU has been keeping financial audits from members. The Republican-controlled...
Policies with Chilling Effect on Public Comment Scrapped in Monroe Lawsuit Settlement
Lucas Thomae | February 2, 2026 (Carolina Public Press) Union County, NC, city had required speakers to publicly state addresses. Legal challenge to public comment rule led to settlement nixing it. A Charlotte-area resident has settled a free speech lawsuit against the City of Monroe and its mayor, whose public...