Home > In the news
LJC In The News
Fox & Friends Interview: Portland Mom Banned From Child’s Graduation After Gender Curriculum Shakeup
Fox & Friends | August 19, 2026 (Fox & Friends) In this Fox & Friends interview, Portland mother Allison Roberts and Liberty Justice Center Senior Counsel Timothy Snowball discussed their federal lawsuit against Portland Public Schools, alleging district officials unconstitutionally retaliated against Roberts for questioning the school’s gender-identity curriculum. ...
I Questioned My Children’s School. Then The Police Came to My Door.
By Allison Roberts, Op-ed contributor | August 18, 2026 (Christian Post) I am a Portland mother of three. My oldest son, now 26, attended Lewis Elementary and had such a positive experience there that my husband and I built our home only blocks from Lewis so we could send our...
Christian Mom Who Spoke Out Against Transgender Policies Blocked From Son’s Graduation: Lawsuit
Tyler O’Neil | August 18, 2026 (Daily Signal) FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Christian mom is suing Portland Public Schools after officials barred her from her children’s elementary school for a year in alleged retaliation for criticizing its transgender policies. “What the district said was, ‘Be quiet, or we will...
FOX News Interview: Portland Mom Fights Child’s Elementary School Over Trans-inclusive Flag.
Fox News Digital | August 18, 2026 (Fox News Digital) In this Interview, Liberty Justice Center client Allison Roberts, told Fox News Digital Tuesday she hopes her fight with her children’s elementary school over a trans-inclusive flag will inspire others to speak out for their beliefs. See this interview on...
Portland Parent Banned from School Events After Opposing Gender Identity Assignment Files Lawsuit
By Lindsay Kornick | August 17, 2026 (Fox News) Liberty Justice Center files lawsuit against Oregon school district, alleging First Amendment violations. Portland, Oregon, mother Allison Roberts filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Portland Public Schools and her children’s elementary school after allegedly facing retaliation over her opposition to their...
The sibling divide: Vermont’s educational double standard
By Tim Snowball | Aug 10, 2026 (Heartlander News Opinion) Parents kept their promises. The state didn’t. With the addition of a new client and an amended complaint in Caspers v. State of Vermont, Liberty Justice Center’s continued fight for the educational freedom of Vermont families just went up a...
Section 301 Tariffs Are Meant to Be A Scalpel, Not A Sledgehammer
By Marc L. Busch and Petros C. Mavroidis | Aug 7, 2026 (The Hill) Congress never intended for Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act to be a general tariff statute. It wrote the statute as a targeted trade remedy. That distinction matters. In fact, it’s at the heart of...
Parental Rights Case Asks Supreme Court for Review
By Esther Wickham | Aug 6, 2026 (The Center Square) The Liberty Justice Center filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging a Maryland public school district’s policy that requires teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns, claiming that the policy violates the constitutional rights...
NewsNation Interview: LJC CEO, Sara Albrecht, Discusses How Small Businesses are Affected by the Tariffs
Cuomo | Aug 4, 2026 (NewsNation) In this NewsNation interview, Liberty Justice Center CEO Sara Albrecht and client Gabe Reilly of Collective Horology discuss their legal challenge to sweeping new tariffs. Albrecht explains how Liberty Justice Center represents small businesses affected by the tariffs and argues that refunds have not...
Interview: Liberty Justice Center’s Sara Albrecht on Fight Against Sweeping New Tariffs on CNN
Quest Means Business | July 29, 2026 (CNN) In this interview on CNN, Liberty Justice Center CEO Sara Albrecht and client, Asher Rapkin CEO, Collective Horology, discuss the legal challenge against sweeping new tariffs and their impact on American businesses and consumers. Albrecht explains why the lawsuit challenges executive overreach...
Trump: New tariffs ‘Doing the Same Thing’ as the Ones Struck Down by Supreme Court
By Kevin Breuninger | July 28, 2026 (CNBC) President Donald Trump on Tuesday said new U.S. tariffs are functionally the same as the ones the Supreme Court struck down as illegal earlier this year. “It’s a shame that I have to go a harder way for the tariffs because the...
Trump’s New Tariffs Prompt Lawsuit From Small Businesses (3)
Erik Larson; Zoe Tillman | July 24, 2026 (Bloomberg Law) (Image credit: Ali Shaker/VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) The Trump administration is facing a fresh legal challenge to the president’s latest round of global tariffs that took effect Friday. Small businesses filed a pair of lawsuits in the US...
Small Businesses Sue Just Hours After Trump’s Latest Tariffs
Tony Romm and Anna Swanson | July 24, 2026 (The New York Times) The businesses are represented by the Liberty Justice Center, a legal group that has successfully challenged President Trump’s past duties. Two small businesses sued the Trump administration on Friday over the latest tariffs it has imposed around...
US small businesses file lawsuit challenging Trump’s new ‘forced labor’ tariffs
Dietrich Knauth | July 24, 2026 (Reuters) (Image credit: Captain Albert E. Theberge, NOAA Corps (ret.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Two U.S. small businesses on Friday challenged President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners, saying that the new policy, like most of Trump’s...
Liberty Justice Center Files First Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Massive New Section 301 Tariffs
The complaint explains why the tariffs violate the requirements of Section 301, and also run afoul of the major questions and nondelegation doctrines. Ilya Somin | July 24, 2026 (Reason) Today, the Liberty Justice Center filed Burlap & Barrel, Inc. v. Greer, the first case challenging Donald Trump’s massive new...