LJC In The News
(ABC 7 News)—Legal experts are weighing in on whether President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate will hold up in court. Some say the federal government does have the right to mandate vaccines, while others argue the president doesn’t have the authority to issue such a requirement. Former Harvard Law School professor...
(New York Post)—Ask questions or post content about COVID-19 that runs counter to the Biden administration’s narrative and find yourself censored on social media. That’s precisely what data analyst and digital strategist Justin Hart says happened to him. And so last week the Liberty Justice Center, a public-interest law firm,...
(NewsMax | Cortes & Pellegrino Show)—Hart v. Facebook plaintiff Justin Hart and Liberty Justice Center’s Daniel Suhr appeared on Newsmax’s Cortes & Pellegrino show to discuss the case. Liberty Justice Center is representing data analyst Justin Hart in a federal lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, President Joe Biden, and the U.S....
(The Center Square)–The eviction moratorium faces two legal challenges from Illinois. One case is focused on the latest federal moratorium from President Joe Biden’s administration and one targets Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s order. As the pandemic began in the spring of 2020, the federal government issued a moratorium on evictions as...
(NBC 5 Chicago)—A lawsuit filed Thursday in the Northern District Court of Illinois is the second and latest challenge to the Biden Administration’s attempt to halt all residential evictions from taking place nationwide amidst a surge in coronavirus cases. Two landlords with properties in Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties —...
(23 WIFR)-Illinois property owners filed a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) eviction ban. “While the Biden Administration claims the eviction ban provides relief to struggling Americans, it does so by passing on hardships to other Americans—property owners,” according to the Liberty Justice Center. The...
(Wall Street Journal)—A federal lawsuit in South Carolina is taking direct aim at one of the state’s uglier legacies: the Blaine Amendment embedded in its state constitution. Blaine Amendments are a relic of 19th-century prejudice, and meant to deny public funding for religious (read: Catholic) schools. More recently the state...
(The Patriot Ledger)—A former MassHealth official from Milton is suing the state and her former bosses for firing her over her comments she made in the Milton Neighbors Facebook group, where she compared some of the state’s policies to Nazi Germany. Denise Foley, formerly MassHealth’s director of internal and external...
(Just the News)—An influential COVID policy skeptic is threatening to sue Facebook for suspending his account based on a graphic he posted Tuesday, titled “Masking Children is Impractical and Not Backed by Research or Real World Data.” Justin Hart was identified in a recent MIT paper as one of a...
(Real Clear Education)—Free speech rights for students have always been a difficult issue because schools have unique needs and concerns. But whether it was black armbands to protest the Vietnam War or a picture of Jesus in an art class, courts have consistently recognized that the First Amendment does not...
(Cronkite News)—At issue in Brnovich v. DNC are Arizona’s bans on ballot collecting and its restrictions on out-of-precinct voting, which were voided by a lower court in 2020 that said the policies limit minority voters’ access to the ballot box. The high court’s decision in the case will affect Section...
Critical race theory in schools is making headlines across the country, and every American, regardless of their viewpoint, needs to understand how CRT programs can impact students’ constitutional rights. Students’ First Amendment rights don’t stop at the schoolroom door. Under the U.S. Constitution, every student—no matter their age or race—has...
1. Menders v. Loudoun County School Board is about racial equality and freedom of speech in schools Every student in Loudoun County, Virginia, regardless of their age or race, has the constitutional right to free speech and to be treated without discrimination due to their race, ethnicity or religion. Students...
(Wall Street Journal)—Identity politics reigns in higher education, and progressives are now turning their focus to K-12. In Loudoun County, Virginia, five families are fighting back in court. Represented by the nonprofit Liberty Justice Center, the parents and students sued the school board in federal court in Alexandria last week....
(Fox & Friends)—Fox & Friends interviewed three Loudoun County parents, including Menders v. Loudoun County School Board plaintiff Patti Hidalgo Menders, about the backlash they’ve faced for speaking out against the way Critical Race Theory is being taught in schools. The Liberty Justice Center is representing Menders and other parents...