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semiquaverlast Monday at 3:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

  > [Judge Edith Jones] also said that under the government’s logic, Congress could  criminalize virtually any in-home activity
Well, yeah. This is essentially the holding in Wickard v. Filburn, which seems to be in tension with this decision (overturning that would be great but it’s not the role of the circuit courts of appeal to do preemptively)

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Joker_vDlast Monday at 3:42 PM

Also, this line is quite funny on its own because while understand what she actually meant, it can be very easily reinterpreted as "only actions committed out-of-home should be crimes; murdered someone in your home? welp, our hands are tied, have a nice day".

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bcjdjsndonyesterday at 10:14 AM

The law is something we made up... Of course you can criminalize anything, that's the whole point of the law!

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