LJC In The News
Are Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Illegal?
(Reason)—In the wake of what President Donald Trump called “Liberation Day,” Victor Owen Schwartz has been scrambling. As the owner of VOS Selections, a New York-based importer and distributor of wines and spirits, Schwartz is required by state law to list his prices every month on a publicly available database....
Liberty Justice Center Urges Supreme Court To Hear Mississippi Christian Free Speech Case
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the justices to take up the case of Olivier v. City of Brandon and protect individuals’ ability to challenge potentially unconstitutional laws even after being prosecuted under them. The case involves Gabriel...
US Businesses Sue To Block Tariffs Arguing Trade Deficits Not An Emergency
(iHeart Radio)—A coalition of small businesses has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, challenging his recent tariffs on foreign imports. The businesses argue that these tariffs are unconstitutional and threaten their survival. The lawsuit filed Monday (April 14) in the U.S. Court of International Trade, disputes Trump’s claim that...
Small Businesses Sue Trump Over Tariffs In US Court Of International Trade
(International Business Times)—A group of small businesses has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imported goods. The lawsuit, filed by the nonpartisan Liberty Justice Center on behalf of five small businesses, argues that Trump exceeded his legal authority by...
Small Businesses Sue Trump Over Tariffs
(CFO Brew)—Instead of just saying “tariffs, amirite?” in response to every financial inconvenience like the rest of us, some businesses are taking matters into their own hands suing Trump. A group of small businesses filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade against President Donald Trump on Monday,...
Small Businesses Sue Trump Over Tariffs: ‘Power Grab’ Threatens Survival of American Entrepreneurs
(New York Post)—A coalition of small businesses has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, arguing that his recent wave of tariffs on foreign imports is unconstitutional and threatens the survival of American entrepreneurs. The suit, filed Monday in the US Court of International Trade, challenges Trump’s legal authority to...
‘His Claimed Emergency Is A Figment Of His Own Imagination’: Lawsuit By Public Interest Law Firm Savages Trump’s Tariffs As Illegal And ‘Unprecedented Power Grab’
(Law & Crime)—President Donald Trump‘s recent imposition of worldwide tariffs are an illegal “unprecedented power grab,” and should be enjoined, a coalition of businesses said in a lawsuit filed on Monday. In a 25-page complaint filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade, the Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian public...
Can Trump’s Tariffs Be Undone In Court? First Lawsuit Targets ‘Liberation Day’ Orders As Conservative Lawyers Protest Policy
(Forbes)—The fate of President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs on foreign imports may play out in court, after the first major legal challenge to them was filed in court Monday, as conservative lawyers have alleged the president is exceeding his authority by enacting tariffs under the International Emergency Economic...
Nonprofit Asks US Trade Court to Strike Down Unprecedented Global Tariffs
(Law.com)—The Liberty Justice Center legal nonprofit has filed the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs on virtually all global imports, calling on the US Court of International Trade to strike down the president’s “unprecedented power grab.” The Liberty Justice Center argued that Trump needed congressional approval...
Conservative Legal Group Sues To Block Trump’s April 2 Tariffs
(E&E News)—A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, challenging the administration’s use of emergency powers to upend the global trading system. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade on Monday, challenges Trump’s use of a 1970s-era law to...
Libertarian Public Interest Law Firm Sues Trump Administration Over Tariffs
(ASI Central)—Legal challenges to tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed on imports are mounting. The Liberty Justice Center, a Libertarian nonprofit public-interest litigation firm based in Austin, TX, has sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade, asserting that the president lacks the legal authority to issue...
Conservative Group Sues Trump Over IEEPA Tariffs, Trade Deficit Emergency
(Inside Trade)—The Trump administration is facing another legal challenge over its imposition of tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, with the conservative Liberty Justice Center charging that the national emergency underpinning the new tariff regime is merely a figment of the president’s imagination. The administration in February declared...
Conservative Anti-Tariff Lawsuit Filed In Vaden Court
(The Fence Post)—Liberty Justice Center, a conservative group, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade challenging President Trump’s authority to impose the tariffs he announced on April 2. Stephen Vaden, Trump’s nominee to be agriculture deputy secretary, is one of the judges on the court. At...
Businesses Sue Trump Administration To Block Tariffs
(UPI)—A group of American companies filed a lawsuit that argues the Trump administration doesn’t have the authority to issue unfettered tariffs without congressional approval. The nonprofit Liberty Justice Center filed the suit Monday in the U.S. Court of International Trade on behalf of five businesses that each claim the tariffs...
Liberty Justice Center IGNITES Court Clash Over Trump’s Risky Tariffs
(RegTech Times)—A legal battle has started over President Donald Trump’s decision to place high taxes known as tariffs on Goods coming into the United States from other countries these tariffs were designed to protect American-made products by making imported items more expensive but not everyone agrees with this move. On...