Demidog said : I didn't say that. Hope that helps. And even the most dense of people in our government understand that interstate means trade between the states.
The Constitution says (Article 1, section 8) :
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
I say : What's the problem here?
Anyway, he claimed on this thread in front of God and everybody that Congress had "no power" under Article I to bar US trade with Cuba. There are a lot of dumb statements that get by me, because I only know a few subjects cold. But the Constitution is one of them. (It's a trade hazard of practicing in the Supreme Court.)
When someone misstates the plain language of the Constitution, that pushes all my buttons. I have no problem. Demidog has a lot of them.
Anytime I see a flat-out misstatement of the Constitution on any thread on FR, I try to clear it up on the spot. Usually I am most polite. But some folks neither understand polite, nor warrant it. The thread readers, however, still deserve a clarification re: the Constitution.
Thanks for putting up the quote from that document. I didn't have the document on my desk as I wrote, and I'm careful not to misquote the Constitution by typing from memory.
Cheers,
Congressman Billybob
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To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
I say : What's the problem here?
Don't confuse doggie with logic. He's like that character on Saturday Night Live. The tobacco lawyer played by Martin Short. "I never said that, why would you think I said that?"