At 5:05 PM -0700 12/16/97, Steve Schear wrote:
Back in the Depression, the FDR-bullied Supremes ruled that a farmer feeding his own grain to his own hogs was affecting interstate commerce (in violation of federal regs on grain production), because he would otherwise have been buying grain that might have come from another state. Similarly, the federal drug laws contend that there's federal jurisdiction
I believe this is the type of systemic constitutional abuse, fostered by SC's expansive interpretations, which Jim Bell was attempting to address via AP.
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