Posted on 10/10/2022 8:55:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As political polarization grows, states are increasingly seeking to regulate beyond their borders. On Tuesday the Supreme Court will consider where to draw the line in a challenge (National Pork Producers Council v. Ross) to California farm-animal regulations that has far-reaching implications.
California voters in 2018 approved a ballot initiative that established minimum confinement standards for farm animals sold as meat in the state. The law effectively requires that adult female pigs be housed in large group pens even though nearly all hog farmers keep them in individual pens, in part to prevent disease from spreading.
About 99.9% of the nation’s pigs are born and raised outside California. The law is an attempt to regulate out-of-state farms, and it imposes costs on farmers that raise prices for consumers across the U.S. Slaughterhouses process hogs from different sources together, and there’s no practical way to separate pigs raised for consumers in California’s market.
*** Pork producers say California’s law violates the so-called dormant Commerce Clause, which is the constitutional doctrine that prohibits states from imposing excessive burdens on interstate commerce. Even the Biden Justice Department says California may not regulate “out-of-state activity with no in-state impact based on a philosophical objection.”
The Constitution allows states to protect the health and safety of their citizens. But even California concedes its rules do “not directly impact human health and welfare” and aren’t “accepted as standards within the scientific community to reduce food-borne illness.” The Humane Society sold the law to voters as preventing animal cruelty.
Under the Court’s precedents, a state law violates the Commerce Clause if its “practical effect” is to “‘control [commercial] conduct beyond the boundaries of the State’” or if it imposes a burden on interstate commerce that is “clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits.”
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I’m so sick of the politicians in California trying to run the whole country into the shithole they’ve become. I wish for a huge earthquake to split the state in half the coastal side can slide into the ocean with all those lousy envirowackos (as Rush used to call them-man I miss him).
Do not sell to California.
In fact, I’m all for cutting them off from buying power off the grid out of Texas tomorrow.
There’s plenty of GloboHomoNazi hair gel used in Calipornia.
Wannabe POTUS ruling from his ‘White House’ roost in Cancerfornia.
Awesome sauce.
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THIS!
If California wants to commit suicide, let ‘em.
Yep.
And the NPPC (National Pork Producers Council) is suing them for trying to restrain interstate trade if I understand it correctly .
Hopefully they win.
The nut jobs in CA behind this law are trying to make laws for all 50 states.
The USSC needs to overthrow every decision using the Commerce Clause. The Pork Producers case is ideal, although any ruling will be limited. Any textualist understands “regulate” meant “to make regular” when the constitution was written. It does not mean “restrict” or tell people how to do their business beyond things like using standard weights and measures, which is also provided in the constitution.
As I read it, they can regulate the remaining .1% of the pigs born and raised in California.
I’d love to regulate Iowa pork farm hygienic standards onto LA/SF streets! Our pigs would never accept what their swine do there. And they are much brighter than the average California politician.
Ah, no bacon in California. Let them have tofu or worse, leave the meat to the rest of us outside of California.
States lost a case a few years against California concerning hens, cages and eggs.
If possible, do not buy from California
Yes, and now eggs in Nevada cost almost five dollars a dozen.
Is there a way to expel this communist s-hole from the union?
This. Let them wallow in their own misery.
Mass tried something similar a while back with eggs. They were forced to back down and make changes when it would basically cut off most of the eggs available to be sold in the state.
Like Demonrats using welfare to breed dumber voters, couldn’t farmers breed animals so stupid they are born vegetables? That seems the easier direction to go in, rather than trying to make vegetables into meat.
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