LJC In The News
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(The Chicago Tribune)—A judge in Springfield on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction blocking a law passed by Democrats that would have prevented Republicans from slating candidates for legislative races not filled in the March primary. Sangamon County Judge Gail Noll issued the order pending a hearing on June 3, which...
(Cook County Record)—A group of Republican candidates have secured a court order blocking the state from enforcing a new law they say unconstitutionally changed the state’s election rules in the middle of the 2024 election cycle, with the intent of keeping Republican candidates from challenging Democratic lawmakers in November. On...
(The Center Square)—The Liberty Justice Center secured a court order temporarily halting enforcement of an Illinois law that Gov. J.B. Pritzker hastily enacted prohibiting candidates that didn’t run in the primary from being slated for the November election. Earlier this month, super-majority Democrats in the Illinois legislature approved and the...
(E & E News | Politico)—A Louisiana think tank and a nonprofit law firm have sued the Department of Energy over its pause on liquefied natural gas export approvals, saying the move is unconstitutional and hurts the economy. The Pelican Institute for Public Policy and the Liberty Justice Center filed...
(Minnesota Lawyer)—The Liberty Justice Center and the Upper Midwest Law Center have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a St. Cloud State University student alleging her First Amendment rights were violated because she was required to pay fees that fund the political speech of an organization called Students United. The...
(Offshore Technology)—The Liberty Justice Center and Pelican Institute for Public Policy jointly filed a lawsuit to challenge a ban imposed by US Prsident Biden’s administration on the authorisation of new and pending LNG export applications on Thursday. In a press statement, the Liberty Justice Center said that since 1938, a...
(Cook County Record)—Saying the law unconstitutionally rewrites the rules of Illinois elections in the middle of the election cycle, a group of prospective Republican General Assembly candidates have become the first to challenge a controversial new “anti-democracy” elections law, rushed through the state legislature by the state’s Democratic supermajority in...
(The Center Square)—Candidates hopeful to run for the Illinois General Assembly filed a lawsuit alleging violation of constitutional voting rights resulting from recent changes in the rules for slating candidates to fill vacancies. Leslie Collazo is a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Friday in Sangamon County Circuit Court. The defendants...
(Winston-Salem Journal)—16-year-old former student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington and his parents are suing Davidson County school officials for suspending him for three days in April. School officials took action for what they described as the student making a racially insensitive remark in a classroom, according to the...