LJC In The News
The Issue of Wetlands
(Rochelle News-Leader)—Seems like the issue of wetlands has been like a volleyball the past two decades being hit over the net back and forth. When Congress initiated the Clean Water Act back in 1985 wetlands were defined as navigable waters which were subject to regulation. In the past 40 years...
Liberty Justice Center Urges Supreme Court To Overturn Oregon Recording Ban, Project Veritas Case
Author: Mike Jenkins (Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) Thursday filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, urging it to strike down an Oregon law that restricts the recording of public officials. The brief, filed in the case of Project Veritas v. Schmidt, argues that Oregon’s...
Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Proceeds, as Observers Seek ‘Full Picture’ of Group’s ‘Radical, Political Spending’
Author: Maggie Little (Read Lion)—A judge has allowed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union to move forward, as the union’s own members have been suing to demand financial transparency. The lawsuit stems from the union’s refusal to release its audits for five years, despite its bylaws requiring it to...
Forbes Interview on Developments in Our Case and Other Litigation Against Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
Author: Ilya Somin (Reason)—Earlier today, Forbes interviewed me about developments in the case challenging Donald Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs brought by the Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five US businesses harmed by the tariffs. We also discussed today’s oral argument in the similar case brought by...
Judge Allows Member Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union to Continue
Author: Chris Coffey (Illinois Policy)—The Chicago Teachers Union suffered a defeat last week when a judge denied its request to dismiss a case filed against it demanding the release of audits its own rules mandate. In Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, several CTU members are challenging the union’s failure to...
Trump Administration Starts Targeted Tariff De-Escalation
Author: Colin Wilhelm (Grant Thornton)—In a pair of announcements within a week of each other, the Trump administration attempted to de-escalate parts of the trade wars it launched over the last few months. Most notably, the Trump administration and Chinese government agreed to a 90-day pause on the embargo-level tariffs...
Incoming Rio Rancho Finance Director Held Same Job During ABQ Planned Parenthood Donation That Sparked Lawsuit
Author: Kevin Opsahl (Rio Rancho Observer)—Rio Rancho’s incoming finance director was in the same role for the city of Albuquerque two years ago, when the city council approved a $250,000 sponsorship with a Planned Parenthood chapter in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s bombshell decision to overturn Roe v. Wade,...
A Major Property Rights Case Idles on Supreme Court Docket
Author: Christian Britschgi (Reason)—Could a Challenge to Los Angeles’ Eviction Ban End Rent Control in New York? Idling on the Supreme Court’s docket is a challenge to Los Angeles’ COVID-era eviction moratorium that, if heard, could have major implications for legal challenges against tenant protection and rent control laws across...
CTU Unable To Quickly End Lawsuit For Missing Financial Audits
(Off the Press)—The politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union can’t escape a lawsuit accusing them of violating their members’ rights by refusing to release years’ worth of financial audits, allegedly in breach of their own governing rules. On May 14, a Cook County judge rejected the CTU’s bid to dismiss the...
On Fifth Anniversary of DeVos Rule, DFI Releases Its Model Title IX Law, the ‘RESPECT Title IX Act’
(Defense of Freedom Institute)—On the fifth anniversary of the DeVos Title IX regulations, the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) today released a comprehensive model Title IX law, the Respect Equality in Sports, Privacy, and Education and Campus Transparency Act (RESPECT Title IX Act), that would codify core...
Exclusive: New Title IX Proposal Could End Gender Theory ‘Whiplash’ Forever
Author: Breccan F. Thies (The Federalist)—One of the issues with Title IX, the law that protects the civil rights and equality of men and women at school from K-12 through college, is that it can be manipulated and changed by successive presidential administrations to conduct bizarre social experiments and undermine...
Court Allows Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Over Financial Transparency
(Legal Newsline)—In a recent legal development, Judge David B. Atkins of the Circuit Court of Cook County has ruled in favor of the Liberty Justice Center in the case of Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). The court denied CTU’s motion to dismiss the case, marking a significant step for...
‘An Economic Fallacy’: Rand Paul Doesn’t See the Benefits of Tariffs
Author: Amanda Friedman (Politico)—Sen. Rand Paul attacked the economic logic of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy on Sunday — and agreed that the policies raise constitutional concerns. The Kentucky Republican said Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners are based on “an economic fallacy” about trade deficits and objected...
Meet the Small-Business Owner Suing Trump Over Tariffs
Authors: Cat Zakrzewski and Emma Talkoff (The Washington Post)—After a long day promoting her new cookbook, entrepreneur Emily Ley sank into her couch and began writing about the threat that President Donald Trump’s tariffs posed to her nine-person company. Ley sells high-end paper planners, advice books and other office staples...
Bally’s Drops Racial Preferences for Chicago Casino IPO
Author: Steven Dahlman (Loop North News)—Bally’s has decided to drop racial limitations from its planned $250 million initial public offering (IPO) for its $1.7 billion Chicago casino project. Following lawsuits by the Liberty Justice Center and the American Alliance for Equal Rights, Bally’s acknowledged that the initial requirements limited investment...