McIntire, a 19-year-old student at Boston’s University of Massachusetts, appeared in federal court Friday and has been charged with one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire of any property used in interstate commerce.

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  • insufferableninja
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    37 days ago

    Bullshit expansion of the commerce clause has been ongoing for at least 100 years.

    c.f. Swift & Co, 1905 (?) and Wickard 1942

    • SSTF
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      37 days ago

      I loves me Wickard v. Filburn which held that a farm not doing interstate commerce could be regulated by the Commerce Clause because the lack of commerce affected interstate commerce.