Explain the details of the U.S. Supreme Court?s 1942 decision in Wickard v. Filburn to most people, and you?re likely to encounter either disbelief or outrage.
The nation?s highest court really ruled that a farmer could not grow wheat on his own land for his own consumption because that act would have an impact on interstate commerce? Yes.
As a new Bloomberg Businessweek article demonstrates, some of those promoting the constitutionality of ObamaCare are pointing to Filburn as a worthwhile precedent. Perhaps these advocates would benefit from reading The Dirty Dozen. a recent account of the worst decisions ? including the Filburn case ? that the Supreme Court ever perpetrated on the American people.
