Just in case anyone didn't catch this in the newsgroups: From: dcd@se.houston.geoquest.slb.com (Dan Day) Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto,alt.privacy,alt.security.pgp Subject: Re: Mandatory Key Escrow: Goodnight! Date: 28 Nov 1994 19:02:31 GMT Organization: GeoQuest System, Inc. Houston Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3bd9g7$1fc@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com> In article <3b655b$rne@eis.calstate.edu> jomcgow@eis.calstate.edu (John S. McGow an) writes:

It is frightening how the power to regulate "interstate commerce" has been used as a justification for the constitutional authority of the federal government to intercede in so many things.

The good news is a few justices still seem to have their heads on straight: Item from AP: It seems that in urging the Supreme Court to reinstate a federal-level ban on firearms within 1000 feet of schools (the 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act), the Clinton administration argues that the national economy is adversely affected by gun-related violence at schools. Therefor, the reasoning continues, Congress was authorized to institute the ban under (you guessed it) the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution. Said Solicitor General Drew S Day III, "This is not about just regulating guns. Congress is concerned with this impact on the national economy." Asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "Is there any violent crime that doesn't affect interstate commerce under your rationale?" Ginsburg later asked Days to cite an example of a law which Congress would NOT have the authority to enact under the Interstate Commerce Clause. Interjected Justice Scalia, "Don't give away anything here. They might want to do it." -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Johnathan Corgan "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" jcorgan@netcom.com -Isaac Asimov PGP Public Key: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html Or send email to: pgp-public-keys@pgp.ai.mit.edu Subj: GET jcorgan -----------------------------------------------------------------------