Sara Albrecht is chairman and CEO of the Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit public-interest law firm. Her earlier career was in investment management, including at Harris Associates and as a founding partner of PPM America's equity team. She founded the investment firm Swan Capital and previously owned the retail chain Ultimo.
Case
Businesses and 25 states say Trump's 10% and 12.5% Section 301 tariffs on 60 economies are a pretext to revive struck-down global tariffs. The administration says they lawfully answer forced-labor import failures. As of September 30, 2026, no court has ruled.
Role at the time: Chairman and CEO of the Liberty Justice Center, the law firm representing plaintiffs Burlap & Barrel and Collective Horology, in a press release
Response to this claim
Learning Resources, Inc. and six other companies said in their August 24, 2026 motion that USTR's determinations are "pretextual and preordained" and that the administration has now tried to re-create "materially the same global tariff regime under three disparate statutes."
“Forced labor is morally indefensible, but an important objective does not give the government permission to ignore the law”
Relative to the Section 301 forced-labor tariffs, Albrecht says the government is ignoring the law by moving the same global tariff policy to a new statute, an express rejection of the tariffs as unlawful. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, because she calls forced labor morally indefensible, but she separates that view from her conclusion about the tariffs.
Statement dates: July 24, 2026
Statement dates: July 24, 2026
