Are you saying they weren't made prior to the 9th decisions, or that they were upheld by the lower courts before they reached the USSC?
You're being a nit-picking pest. Both the author and I were talking about drugs in that section. I thought that was understood.
"The Ninth Circuit, affectionately known as the Ninth Circus -- THE most overturned lower court in the U.S. -- went against all previous lower court commerce clause rulings dealing with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 with their decision."
Better?