Whew... That is unbelievable. That 1942 court upheld the Department of Agriculture directive which authorized the government to set production quotas for wheat. Farmer Filburn wanted to grow extra wheat on his own farm for his own use and was prohibited by the government! The communists were active even back then. I’m a little surprised the Filburns of the country didn’t start blowing the revenuers away.
Yes. The left in this country treat Wickard as hallowed ground. They probably rever it more than Roe v Wade. It is the foundation that an enormous amount of federal power rests on. It looked as though we were on the right course when the SC decided Lopez in 1995, but it was never followed up. The shining star in all this is Justice Thomas, who has never waivered. Majorities in the court have upheld what I would say are clearly unconstitutional expansions of federal power under the commerce clause for both the war on drugs and the EPA.
Nobody did anything when the government passed the National Firearms Act. They weren’t going to do anything when farmers were told to produce only a certain amount of a crop.
We’ve certainly failed the Founders.