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vageli · 2022-06-24 20:27:05

Only the federal goverment can regulate interstate commerce so it is doubtful.

sidewndr46 | karma 3744 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2023-08-18 11:41:02

But US states can't regulate interstate commerce. So it's moot.

iraqmtpizza | karma -20 | avg karma -0.04 · | 2023-07-11 03:51:01

only if it's interstate commerce

fjsolwmv | karma 848 | avg karma 0.49 · | 2018-01-27 16:17:54+00:00

Not really true. This is well inside the domain of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The Federal government could block it.

tomrod | karma 14581 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2023-06-14 15:58:15

I wonder if interstate commerce applies here.

mikeash | karma 74524 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2017-10-29 21:57:15+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re saying here. It’s not that the feds must somehow regulate interstate commerce, it’s that the states can’t. The 21st carves out an exception.

roywiggins | karma 12849 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2023-03-25 23:29:45

I may be wrong, but I think it depends on whether it actually conflicts with any federal law. States can pass laws that affect interstate commerce if there's no superceding federal law and if they don't fall afoul of the Dormant Commerce Clause, which sort of generically restricts interstate protectionism.

suivix | karma 987 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2011-11-12 21:35:03

That would make interstate commerce regulation pretty interesting.

pcvarmint | karma 926 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2017-02-01 16:26:26

Only interstate commerce is regulated in the Constitution.

hellojesus | karma 556 | avg karma 0.7 · | 2022-06-28 01:49:04

They do, but that only regulates interstate commerce. Intrastate commerce is unimpacted.

gpm | karma 17771 | avg karma 3.89 · | 2020-10-14 19:43:45+00:00

Interstate commerce, which this most certainly is, is a federal issue?

zeckalpha | karma 3100 | avg karma 1.88 · | 2019-03-05 00:35:24+00:00

Interstate commerce?

dragonwriter | karma 118260 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2016-05-09 17:03:40+00:00

Interstate commerce being a federal power under the Constitution prohibits states acting to regulate interstate commerce where the federal government has acted, without the permission of Congress, and prohibits the States from discriminating against out-of-state commerce generally. That doesn't mean that all State regulation of interstate commerce is prohibited, but the State's power is sharply circumscribed by the mere designation of the federal power as well as by federal action exercising that power.

venomsnake | karma 6230 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2013-05-07 18:23:44+00:00

Something I don't get - this seems like interstate commerce - isn't it under federal regulation and not state?

barryrandall | karma 770 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2024-03-29 14:08:48

I wonder if this will be the issue that motivates the federal government to assert and defend its power to regulate interstate commerce.

thebooktocome | karma 1613 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2020-03-15 17:41:29

Congress has the authority to regulate interstate commerce.

jmclnx | karma 4423 | avg karma 2.68 · | 2022-02-22 10:06:53

I would think this would violate the interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

NickC25 | karma 2659 | avg karma 3.46 · | 2024-02-28 17:16:26

I think that would be a state trying to regulate interstate commerce, which pretty much is a federal task.

DannyBee | karma 28474 | avg karma 5.43 · | 2022-06-10 10:05:25

and then the law would get struck down because, as said, washington state isn't allowed to regulate interstate commerce.

tt433 | karma 267 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2021-02-18 03:35:07

How is it legal for them to regulate interstate commerce?