Court Opinion

ID: 9428402
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:23:39.03305+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:11.564609
License: Public Domain

The Chief Justice,
concurring.*
I agree largely with what Justice Rehnquist has said about the “fictions” concerning delegation, and the gradual case-by-case expansion of the reach of the Commerce Clause.
I agree fully with his view that we often seem to forget the doctrine that laws enacted by Congress under the Commerce Clause must be based on a substantial effect on interstate commerce. However, I join the Court’s opinions in these cases and in No. 80-231 because in them the Court acknowledges and reaffirms that doctrine. See, e. g., ante, at 280.

[This opinion applies also to No. 80-231, Hodel, Acting Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Indiana et al., post, p. 314.]