No one can have forgotten the bitterness of the struggle over the New Deal's attempt to pack the Supreme Court. . . . The Congress would not pass his court-packing law. . . . Nevertheless, it was possible two years later for . . . President to boast that he had won. Vacancies on the bench caused by death and retirement enabled him to fill it up with justices who were New-Deal minded. . . . [S]o at last he did capture the judicial power. . . [and achieved the] extreme and fantastic extensions of the interstate commerce clause.
The Constitution says that the Congress shall have the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." . . . .
Commerce among the several states is of course interstate commerce. . . .
And then the New Deal courts stretched the definition of interstate commerce to the extreme of saying that the Federal government may regulate a wheat farmer who feeds his own wheat to his own chickens, on the ground that if he had not raised his own wheat he would have had to buy wheat for his chickens and buying it would be in the way of interstate commerce; or, that the Federal government may regulate the hours and wages of elevator operators, janitors, and char-women in a Philadelphia office building because some of the building's tenants are engaged in interstate commerce. See: http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/docs/The_Revolution_Was.html