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Good idea, but that defense has already been rejected by the Supreme Court twice. Their reason? I kid you not... "the butterfly effect". The Supreme Court consi
by alexmingoia 10y ago
Good idea, but that defense has already been rejected by the Supreme Court twice. Their reason? I kid you not... "the butterfly effect". The Supreme Court considers any activity that doesn't leave the state to possibly affect interstate commerce so they can regulate everything with that clause. See Wickard v. Filburn and most recently Gonzales v. Raich. Prepare to be enraged.
- wool_gather 10y agoEnraging indeed. "Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce" [emphasis mine] -- Justice Antonin Scalia, in the majority opinion for Gonzales v. Raich, using his vaunted legal genius to find a reason, any reason at all, to stop people from doing things that he didn't like. One of the most influential hypocrites of the new millenium, if not the whole history of the republic.