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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 affect interstate commerce. and with respect to the third category, the supreme court has made clear...

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. with respect to the third category the supreme court has made clear in the lopez case and in morri...

About this lopez case, as well. his sentence is also likely to be commuted. he is 74 years old, he's 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 that was echoed years later on 9/11 and many ways. it was considered the first terrorist attack o...

About this lopez case, as well. his sentence is also likely to be commuted. he is 74 years old, he's 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 that was echoed years later on 9/11 and many ways. it was considered the first terrorist attack o...

President said unprecedented he was referring to cases only involving a commerce clause but megyn, that doesn't really make sense, either, since the u.s. supreme court has overturned those cases. in fact as you pointed out yesterday, it's done so fairly recently. i've 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 moments ago, attorney general eric holder addressed the controversy. it was his underling in the ...