Is Jones Act unconstitutional as it applies to Hawaii, Alaska?

There’s a new legal theory against the Jones Act on the block, and I’m hoping that it has some legs. My colleagues and I at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii have been advocating for years that federal lawmakers reform the maritime law known as the Jones Act, which you might recall requires that all goods shipped between U.S. ports be U.S. flagged and built, and be mostly owned and crewed by Americans.

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