LJC In The News
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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.,...
(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...
(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...
(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...