Squire admitted that his firearm and ammunition were manufactured outside Louisiana. The question is whether that past movement permits Congress to regulate his present, entirely intrastate possession. [More]
We need a Bruen-type ruling recognizing the Constitution was ratified with the interstate powers in the Commerce Clause understood to be the way to keep states from imposing tariffs and embargoes on each other.
The metastasized monster it has become reflects when FDR’s power grab against the last vestiges of federalism. I find it intriguing that the polar flip in interpretation of the Constitution came about “because one justice, Owen Roberts, switched his vote. Ever since, historians have argued about why he did so.”
