Where do you go to challenge an illegal tax? Well, if that tax is a tariff your destination is the United States Court of International Trade. Learn all about this corner of the Article III judiciary, and how tariffs for once took a beating before it, from Eric Boehm, a reporter at Reason. Also, we return to a frequent subject on Short Circuit, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, with IJ’s Josh Windham. That court just made it a little easier to challenge restrictions on gun rights, although it really shouldn’t have been that hard in the first place.

Solar Energy Industries Assoc. v. U.S., https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/21-154.pdf
Firearm Owners Against Crime v. City of Harrisburg, https://casetext.com/case/firearm-owners-against-crime-v-city-of-harrisburg-1
A Judge Just Did What Biden Wouldn’t: Dump Some Trump Tariffs, https://reason.com/2021/11/17/a-judge-just-did-what-biden-wouldnt-kill-some-trump-tariffs/
Eric Boehm, https://reason.com/people/eric-boehm/
Josh Windham, https://ij.org/staff/joshua-windham/
Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/

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