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1 posted on 05/15/2026 5:47:18 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone
Wickard v. Filburn should be ranked right up there with Dred Scott v. Sanford as one of the worst SCOTUS decisions of all time.

It is an open sophistry for conflating actual interstate commerce with potential interstate commerce, as though you could be charged with "potential murder" for possessing a handgun. It completely eviscerated the Commerce Clause' limitations on Congress' powers over the economy.

The Founders were not fools: they knew control over commerce was one of the principle sources of corruption and despotism in government, which is why Congress' powers were limited. To put it bluntly, Congress has no authority over my production and possession of anything unless I cross state lines with it.

2 posted on 05/15/2026 5:56:57 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Let’s start by limiting food exports until we feed everyone here. They can have the left-overs that we don’t stockpile for bad years.

Another travesty is the setting of beef prices by people that have never been on a ranch to know what it takes to raise them.


3 posted on 05/15/2026 6:00:20 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Twotone

Can the chicoms own any aspect of it?


4 posted on 05/15/2026 6:02:21 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Twotone

It sounds like a good start.

In the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has been championing the claw back of the insane interpretation of the Commerce Clause for decades.


5 posted on 05/15/2026 6:15:43 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: Twotone

Funny a guy named Angus co-sponsored the bill. :-)


7 posted on 05/15/2026 6:57:52 AM PDT by bicyclerepair
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Wickard needs to be over turned.

L


8 posted on 05/15/2026 7:06:45 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Twotone

Defund the Deep State to stop this type of over-reaching nonsense.

Cut the federal budget for all non-military bureaucracies to 25% or less of current expenditures
so they don’t have the money to keep the federal boot on our throats.


10 posted on 05/15/2026 7:27:04 AM PDT by Iron Munro (David Horowitz — "Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" )
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To: Twotone

“This lack of local control has led to unintended consequences “

Sure. Unintended.


11 posted on 05/15/2026 7:33:44 AM PDT by subterfuge
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