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Jacob Huebert

Jacob Huebert

Senior Litigation Counsel


Jacob Huebert is Senior Litigation Counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. He previously served as President and Director of Litigation of the Liberty Justice Center, where he successfully litigated cases to protect constitutional rights, including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld government employees’ First Amendment right to choose for themselves whether to pay money to a union. Jacob was also previously a Senior Attorney at the Goldwater Institute, where he litigated cases on free speech, property rights, and the Second Amendment.

Jacob and his work have appeared in numerous national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Fox News Channel. He is also the author of a book, Libertarianism Today

Jacob holds a B.A. in economics from Grove City College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, he served as a clerk to Judge Deborah Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Jacob has served as an adjunct law professor at several law schools, teaching courses in advanced appellate advocacy, the law of payments, legal writing, and jurisprudence. Before working in public interest law, Jacob was a litigator in private practice. 

Trump Must Be Allowed to Remove Jerome Powell

By: Jacob Huebert January 28, 2026
It is outrageous for a president to threaten criminal charges against the Federal Reserve chair — or anyone — just to get them to do his bidding. Although the administration’s action against Jerome Powell over his testimony to Congress about renovation of Federal Reserve buildings might be disturbing and wrong — at least if the…
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The Federal Reserve Must Be Accountable

By: Jacob Huebert December 18, 2025
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Next month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump v. Cook—a case about whether President Trump acted lawfully when he fired Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, because he allegedly recently discovered that she lied on a mortgage application shortly before President Biden appointed her to the Board in…
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