LJC In The News
Illinois License Plate Cameras Are Violating People’s Constitutional Rights, Says New Suit
(Reason)—Can state police track drivers everywhere they go via hundreds of license plate cameras? A new lawsuit says that Illinois’ widespread use of such cameras—called automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)—violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches because it breaches citizens’ reasonable expectations of privacy. The complaint—filed by two residents...
Latest in Case Defending Student Suspended for Saying “Illegal Alien”
(Lou Dobbs Tonight)—The Liberty Justice Center’s Educational Freedom Attorney Dean McGee discusses the latest developments in a federal lawsuit defending Christian McGhee, a North Carolina student who was suspended for asking a question containing the phrase “illegal alien.” The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a preliminary injunction urging the court...
Opinion: I’m Suing the Biden Administration to Save Gen Z’s Free Speech
(Newsweek)—TikTok is not just cat videos, cringe-worthy dancing, and bad lip-syncing. Millions of Gen Z Americans like myself use TikTok to express ourselves, share news, and debate our ideas. Yet the federal government is trying to take this unique communication platform away from us. In April, President Joe Biden signed...
Ban TikTok? Not So Fast, Lawsuit from Conservative Group Says
(The Sacramento Bee)—The clock is ticking for TikTok, the social media video-sharing app from Beijing-based ByteDance. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law, signed by President Joe Biden, forcing ByteDance to either sell the app or shut it down. Such a measure was bound to draw legal challenges. TikTok has...
Illinois Judge Rules Election Law Change Unconstitutional for 2024 Cycle
(Patch)—A Springfield judge ruled that a new Illinois law that prevents political parties from slating candidates when no one runs in a primary election is unconstitutional. Wednesday’s order from Sangamon County Circuit Judge Gail Noll only applies to the 14 Republican candidates and the November 2024 election cycle. Passed by...
Judge Blocks Illinois Election Law That Repealed Slating, Deems It Unconstitutional
(The Epoch Times)—An Illinois judge has blocked enforcement of a controversial election law recently signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that barred political parties from appointing candidates to fill out general election ballots where the party did not field a primary candidate, a practice known as slating. Judge Gail Noll granted...
Illinois Judge Slaps Down Democrats’ Attempt to Bar Republicans from Ballot
(The Daily Caller)—An Illinois judge ruled Wednesday against a Democratic effort to bar Republicans from running for statewide office by altering election laws midway through the campaign season. Illinois Democrats had attempted to use its supermajority to pass legislation rewriting the rules by which political parties can select candidates, according...
Right Wing TikTokers Sue Biden Admin, Challenging TikTok Action on First Amendment Grounds: ‘A Ban on Speech’
(Fox Business)—FIRST ON FOX: Right-leaning TikTok users filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the law President Biden signed forcing a sale of TikTok, arguing it violates the First Amendment. According to a press release obtained by FOX Business, the Liberty Justice Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of BASED Politics Inc.,...
Judge: Democrats Can’t Change 2024 Election Rules Now to Block Republicans From Fall Ballot
(Cook County Record)—A Springfield judge has slapped a permanent hold on a new state law, hastily enacted this spring by Illinois’ Democratic supermajority, which rewrote the rules by which political parties can select candidates, and which Republicans described as little more than brazen attempt to block Republican candidates from challenging...
Slated Candidates Get Win after Pritzker-Signed Election Law Deemed Unconstitutional
(The Center Square)—A Sangamon County Circuit Court judge made a temporary injunction permanent, finding that enforcing a recently signed law that eliminates “slating” for General Assembly races in the 2024 election is unconstitutional. Last month, the Illinois General Assembly gutted and replaced a child welfare bill with changes to election...
Liberty Justice Center Sues Illinois State Police Over License Plate Readers
(The Epoch Times)—The Liberty Justice Center on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging Illinois’ roadway cameras, which capture images of license plates on vehicles driving on state highways. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two Cook County residents, argues that the Illinois State Police Department’s use of highway cameras—known as Automated...
Constitutional Attorney Jeffrey Schwab on a New Janus-Related Case with Potentially Sweeping Ramifications
(Labor Relations Radio)—Constitutional attorney Jeffrey Schwab from the Liberty Justice Center joins Labor Relations Radio to discuss a newly-filed case that, if successful, may open governments up to being “joint employers” with certain private-sector employers. The interview is available here: https://laborunionnews.substack.com/p/labor-relations-radio-e132constitutional. Schwab, who is not a labor attorney, served as...
Judge Blocks Illinois Law that Changed Ballot Access Rules After Primary
(The Epoch Times)—An Illinois judge on Wednesday halted a newly enacted state election law that prevents candidates from gaining access to a major party ballot through an alternative “slating” option. Prior to the change, a local committee for a political party could nominate, or “slate,” a candidate to a general...
Judge Halts Election Law that Blocked Republican Candidates from Appearing on November Ballot
(Chicago Sun-Times)—A judge in Springfield this week sided with a group of Republican office seekers who say they are blocked from November’s ballot under a controversial new law that’s been derided as a “dictator-style tactic of stealing an election.” Gov. J.B. Pritzker on May 2 quickly signed into law a...
Law Firm Halts Dem State Board of Elections’ Attempted Rule Change
(The Daily Caller)—A court order halting the Illinois Board of Elections from attempting to change the rules for ballot access mid-election, which was pushed for by the Liberty Justice Center (LJC), was approved Wednesday, according to a press statement. The law firm released a press statement announcing that the court...