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Broad to allow for federal regulation of interstate commerce and the growth of the economy in this country. but over time, the supreme court has made clear that the commerce clause limits the federal government, that there is limited authority under the commerce clause. the state of the law now is such that the federal government, through the commerce clause, is only permitted to regulate channels of interstate commerce instrumentalities of interstate commerce, and activities that substantially ...

Broad to allow for federal regulation of interstate commerce and the growth of the economy in this country. but over time the supreme court has made clear the commerce clause limits the federal government, limited authority under the commerce clause. the state of the law is such that the federal government through the commerce clause is only permitted to regulate channels of interstate commerce, instrumentalities of interstate commerce and activities that substantially affect interstate commerce...

About this lopez case, as well. his sentence is also likely to be commuted. he is 74 years old, hes served 35 years of a sentence. let me just remind whatever he wanted. he was part of the f al and back in the 1970s and 80s. he proclaimed in front of a judge, a i am an enemy of the u.s. government. he was fighting for freedom for puerto rico. one of the many things they did was the bombing of the tavern down and the wall street area where four people lost their lives. they were killed in a scene...

About this lopez case, as well. his sentence is also likely to be commuted. he is 74 years old, hes served 35 years of a sentence. let me just remind whatever he wanted. he was part of the f al and back in the 1970s and 80s. he proclaimed in front of a judge, a i am an enemy of the u.s. government. he was fighting for freedom for puerto rico. one of the many things they did was the bombing of the tavern down and the wall street area where four people lost their lives. they were killed in a scene...

President said unprecedented he was referring to cases only involving a commerce clause but megyn, that doesnt really make sense, either, since the u.s. supreme court has overturned those cases. in fact as you pointed out yesterday, its done so fairly recently. ive got the lopez case in front of me, 1995, that was a congress clause case, the high court overturned congress. megyn: morrison was decided later than that, in 2000, same thing 457d -- happened, different act. gregg, thank you. a few ...

So, how is this law unconstitutional? >> well, thats the thing, this one goes to far -- there were recent cases and one was the lopez case and one was the morrison case, 1995, and 2000, that said that there is a limit, to commerce, but, here you have someone sitting at home that doesnt want to buy health insurance, doesnt think they need it and are not interested in it and you have the u.s. congress telling them they have to go out and buy it and they are not in commerce, they are out of commerc...