Sara Albrecht
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”
The Liberty Justice Center's announcement of the Burlap and Barrel and Collective Horology complaint, with statements from Sara Albrecht, litigation director Jeffrey Schwab and the two companies' founders. It says the case does not dispute that governments should combat forced labor and asks the court to declare the tariffs unlawful and preserve refunds.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
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.