Though U.S. President Donald Trump temporarily paused some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs for negotiations, a nonprofit firm and legal scholar still sued him and other officials on Monday on behalf of five import-reliant small businesses, asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to “declare the president’s unprecedented power grab illegal.”
Ilya Somin, a Cato Institute chair and George Mason University law professor, announced earlier this month on a legal blog hosted by the outlet Reason that he and the Liberty Justice Center—which has a record of representing libertarian positions in court battles—were “looking for appropriate plaintiffs to bring this type of case.”
