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fngjdflmdflgyesterday at 3:38 PM1 replyview on HN

No matter what you think of this ban, the court is obviously not the right place to solve it. It is completely unsurprising that this is a unanimous decision because foreign trade is one of the few powers expressly given to the federal government in the constitution:

>[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;[0]

(The actual law may not have relied exclusively on the Commerce Clause, you would have to read it to find out. But from a high level there is nothing stopping congress from regulating any instance foreign trade.)

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8...


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xeromalyesterday at 5:04 PM

Congress passed a law banning it. Where else would you solve it?

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