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To: Who is John Galt?
It could have even more impact if it were applied to the Commerce Clause, you know, restricting jurisdiction of Federal commercial regulation to actual interstate commerce as it used to be before the New Deal.
17 posted on 11/01/2020 10:28:34 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: pierrem15
It could have even more impact if it were applied to the Commerce Clause, you know, restricting jurisdiction of Federal commercial regulation to actual interstate commerce...

Very VERY true - Justice Thomas made his view quite clear in Gonzales v. Raich:

"Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything—and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers..."

28 posted on 11/01/2020 11:32:24 AM PST by Who is John Galt? (Mit Pulver und Blei, die Gedanken sind frei... ;^)
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