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bcjdjsndonyesterday at 10:14 AM1 replyview on HN

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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joshuaccyesterday at 12:38 PM

Sure. But by the text of the constitution (the thing we made up) Congress does not have the power to criminalize “anything,” but only things in specific areas. Everything else is left to state law.

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