All Your Base Are Belong to Us
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything–and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
That “no longer” has been true for about 60 years, but this case marks the end of what some people thought was a turn toward federalism by the Supreme Court. Are radical right wing judges trying to roll back the new deal? No, they’re citing Wickard v. Filburn approvingly.
Damn.