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.
Represented by the nonprofit Liberty Justice Center, the parents and students sued the school board in federal court. They claim that Loudoun County Public Schools’ policies and programs to address “systemic racism” discriminate on the basis of race and viewpoint.
“This case and increasingly other cases are showing courts’ willingness to question executive claims of authority during this pandemic,” said Daniel Suhr, a Wisconsin-based attorney for the Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian-leaning public-interest law firm.
“This case and increasingly other cases are showing courts’ willingness to question executive claims of authority during this pandemic,” said Daniel Suhr, a Wisconsin-based attorney for the Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian-leaning public-interest law firm.
Attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center and National Right to Work Legal Foundation represented Illinois state employee Mark Janus in an historic U.S. Supreme Court victory for workers’ rights in Janus v. AFSCME. The excerpt below is from an opinion piece by James Taranto of...
As organized labor braces for a Supreme Court ruling that could make it easy for public-sector workers to stop paying some dues, unions across the country are reaching out to hundreds of thousands of members to persuade them to keep paying dues. The Service Employees International Union...
Nov. 14, 2016 One of the most intriguing political shifts Tuesday was Donald Trump’s relative popularity with union members. Exit polls show that Hillary Clinton did not win union households in nearly the numbers that President Obama did in 2012. Although major unions like the...