Enraging indeed. "Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not the

Enraging 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.