LJC In The News
Slated Candidates Get Win after Pritzker-Signed Election Law Deemed Unconstitutional
(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...
Liberty Justice Center Sues Illinois State Police Over License Plate Readers
(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...
Constitutional Attorney Jeffrey Schwab on a New Janus-Related Case with Potentially Sweeping Ramifications
(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...
Judge Blocks Illinois Law that Changed Ballot Access Rules After Primary
(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...
Judge Halts Election Law that Blocked Republican Candidates from Appearing on November Ballot
(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...
Law Firm Halts Dem State Board of Elections’ Attempted Rule Change
(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...
Judge Temporarily Blocks Hastily Passed Election Law that Favored Democrats in November
(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...
‘Anti-Democracy’ Law Blocked: GOP Candidates Win Court Order Stopping Dems from Using New Law to Keep Them off Ballot
(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...
Illinois Court Order Halts Mid-Election Rule Change Enacted by Pritzker
(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...
Lawsuit Slams DOE’s LNG Pause as Unconstitutional
(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...
Suit Challenges Mandatory Fees Supporting Students United Agenda: St. Cloud Grad Says Required Students United Funding Violated Her Rights
(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...
Liberty Justice Center and Pelican Institute Challenge Biden’s LNG Export Ban
(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...
IL Dems Unconstitutionally Changed Election Rules to Block Republican Candidates from Fall Ballot, Lawsuit Says
(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...
Candidates File Lawsuit Challenging Illinois’ Hastily Changed Election Law
(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...
A Former Student at Central Davidson High and His Parents Are Suing the Davidson County School Over His Three-Day Suspension
(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...