Opinion ID: 745302
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Heading: commerce clause challenge to the federal carjacking statute

Text: 31 Romero asserts that Congress exceeded its power under the Commerce Clause in enacting 18 U.S.C. § 2119, the federal carjacking statute. He contends that the statute is unconstitutional under the principles set forth in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 115 S.Ct. 1624, 131 L.Ed.2d 626 (1995). 32 In United States v. Overstreet, 40 F.3d 1090, 1092-93 (10th Cir.1994), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1113, 115 S.Ct. 1970, 131 L.Ed.2d 859 (1995), a pre-Lopez decision, we rejected a Commerce Clause challenge to the federal carjacking statute. We reaffirmed that holding in light of Lopez in United States v. Carolina, 61 F.3d 917, 1995 WL 422862,  1-2 (10th Cir.1995). Nothing in the Supreme Court's Commerce Clause jurisprudence that convinces us to alter our decisions in Overstreet and Carolina. Thus, we reject Romero's constitutional challenge to the federal carjacking statute. 3