[Paladin2]

"...the Supreme Court upheld a penalty imposed on an Ohio farmer who had grown a small amount of wheat, in excess of his production quota, purely for his own use."

That case law clearly needs to be overturned as soon as possible and reparations paid to all conservatives.

[astyanax]

This would be the perfect opportunity for the Supreme Court to remove the “catch all” from this ruling and its impact on the commerce clause.

[DrC]

“who had grown a small amount of wheat, in excess of his production quota, purely for his own use.”

Weren’t people in the Soviet Union sent to the Gulag for offences such as this? This really epitomizes the totalitarian mentality. It’s not enough to regulate every iota of goods that are exchanged with others: the state has to criminalize growing food for one’s own family or self.

It’s hard to imagine the Founding Fathers risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to create a government with this kind of power to squelch freedom.