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semiquavertoday at 3:09 PM1 replyview 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_vDtoday 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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