Expanding Commerce as Police Flashcards
CC doctrine is unstable because ___
invites litigation to define the limits
Ham thinks CC means that ___
fed govt no longer one of enumerated powers
Lopez gave ___ can regulate under CC
three activities
Three activities from Lopez
(1) use of channels of interstate (2) instrumentalities of commerce + people/things in it even if threat only from intrastate (3) substantial relation to interstate
Cases about channels of interstate
Darby, Heart of Atlanta
Examples of channels of interstate
highways, shipping lanes, canals
examples of instrumentalities of commerce
cars, bus, railroads
Shreveport facts
railroads discrim against activities to and from Shreveport (threat only from intrastate)
Cong can regulate instrumentalities of commerce when necessary to ___
execute interstate commerce
Raich facts
marijuana grown for personal use
Raich ___ Lopez
loosens
Raich holding
production of commodity for home use has substantial effect on supply/demand of national market since could illicitly enter it
Substantial relation means that if ____
rational basis to conclude this activity on aggregate would affect interstate substantially
Raich uses McCulloch to justify saying ___
if Cong thinks necessary should presume so if logical nexus
Ham problem with Raich
Court’s job to decide if NP (not Cong.) and now Q of economics which judges hate to decide
Comstock principle
Cong just needs rational basis somehow connected to enumerated power
Comstock holding
allow civil commitment (longer sentence) of federally incarcerated if mental illness makes them sexually dangerous to others
Comstock Thomas dissent
no enumerated power covering civil commitment
Comstock reasoning
(1) Cong. allowed to create fed prisons (2) links not too attenuated, no need to pile inference upon inference like in Lopez (3) analysis not about number of links in the chain but strength of chain
Ham critique of Comstock
essentially giving Cong general police power
Lopez principle
interstate not unlimited category
Lopez facts
claim guns in school zones affect interstate
Ham critique of Lopez
doesn’t describe limits well, just makes Cong say the magic words
Lopez reasoning
nothing to do with commerce no matter how broadly defined, cost of crime reasoning too attenuated (hard to imagine limit especially in crim/ed law where states more sov
Wickard principle
can aggregate intrastate action to see if substantial effect on interstate (NP under CC)
Wickard says that Cong has power to __
regulate prices and practices affecting such prices
Ham critique of Wickard
what can’t Cong regulate