Ask Justice Scalia =>
Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce.
--Justice Scalia, concurring in Raich
It’s gonna be a while until Wickard v. Filburn is straightened out.
Yeah, I can recall a 1930s case where taking goods up in an elevator was deemed to be in the flow of interstate commerce. I just don’t like it.