Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U...
by barry-cotter on Sunday August 02, 2020 @12:39AM
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> Even with full on bi-partisan majority and popular support, unconstitutional measures cannot be executed by the Federal Government.
And the fact that the US Constitution only allows the Federal Government to regulate interstate commerce is why Wickard v. Filburn was decided for Filburn. Growing wheat to feed your own pigs is obviously not interstate commerce so the Feds can’t tell you what to do.
Obviously that’s not what actually happened. Equally obviously the constitution constrains the government exactly as much as it wishes to be constrained.
And the fact that the US Constitution only allows the Federal Government to regulate interstate commerce is why Wickard v. Filburn was decided for Filburn. Growing wheat to feed your own pigs is obviously not interstate commerce so the Feds can’t tell you what to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Obviously that’s not what actually happened. Equally obviously the constitution constrains the government exactly as much as it wishes to be constrained.