"In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals. It held that while Congress had broad lawmaking authority under the Commerce Clause, …” — United States v. Lopez, 1995.
"Held: The Act exceeds Congress' Commerce Clause authority. First, although this Court has upheld a wide variety of congressional Acts regulating intrastate economic activity that substantially affected interstate commerce, …” — United States v. Lopez, 1995 .
So even as of 1995, misguided, institutionally indoctrinated Supreme Court justices are blindly following in the footsteps of FDR’s activist justices concerning the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers, wrongly ignoring that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the limits of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Also note that if the states had never ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up the voices of state lawmakers in Congress, I can imagine that the Senate probably would have protected the states by killing the bill that established the unconstitutional federal gun law that Mr. Lopez had broken.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt, state power-ignoring senators along with it.
Most people mistakenly think that since SCOTUS struck down a GFSZ Act, that none is on the books today.
All three branches of the federal government aim to increase the power of the federal government. The trick is to do so slow enough, or wait for a suitable crisis.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt, state power-ignoring senators along with it.
Amen.