But it has to be remembered that he voted to trample the constitution and rip the medicine out of the hands of a dying cancer patient.
Explain plz
Gonzales v. Raich.
The majority held that the interstate commerce clause could be interpreted to read that in the case where a cancer patient that needed marijuana for medical purposes, grew the marijuana herself, and used it, without the weed ever traveling in interstate commerce, the clause still applied.
Scalia voted with the majority.
My personal opinion on the case is to agree with Justice Thomas, who wrote:
If the Federal Government can regulate growing a half-dozen cannabis plants for personal consumption (not because it is interstate commerce, but because it is inextricably bound up with interstate commerce), then Congress Article I powersas expanded by the Necessary and Proper Clausehave no meaningful limits.