The Bulwark
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In a little-known case pending this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the constitutional validity of California voters’ 2018 ballot measure.
Peter Bergen: The case has implications for Congress’s power to regulate commerce and states’ ability to enact laws that impact other states on a range of issues.
He says a ruling in favor of California would enable states to impose their views on citizens of other states.
John Sutter: Justices probed the implications of siding with Prop 12’s challengers.
He says it's not hard to identify out-of-state impacts of a whole range of laws that most people would assume are reasonable things for a particular state to do.
The elephant (or pig) in the room is abortion, which the same Court last year sent back to the states for regulation.
Given Congress's broad power to regulate interstate commerce under the Constitution, the Court might do well this round to decide that it's for the democratically accountable legislative.
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