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ted the violated the Commerce Clause because it did not establish a nexus to interstate commerce; SORNA derived its authority from each prong of the Lopez test--and most specifically, the ability to regulate persons or things in interstate commerce and the use of the channels of interstate commerce; t

late substantive due process. United States v Ambert (2009, CAI I Fla) 561 F3d 1202, 21 FLW Fed C 1596. Congress did not exceed its authority under Commerce Clause, U.S. Const. art. 1, § 8, cl. 3, when it passed 18 USCS§ 2250(a) because when sex offender traveled from one state to another, he was instrumentalit

ted the violated the Commerce Clause because it did not establish a nexus to interstate commerce; SORNA derived its authority from each prong of the Lopez test--and most specifically, the ability to regulate persons or things in interstate commerce and the use of the channels of interstate commerce; t

sex offender when he crossed state lines because both statutes were constitutional; 18 USCS § 2250 was proper exercise of congressional power under Commerce Clause because Congress has broad federal power to regulate persons who cross state boundaries and, while 42 USCS § 16913 exceeded Congress's power under C

ive reading, even if permissible, would very likely exceed the Commerce Clause power as the Supreme Court presently construes it. In United States' Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), the Supreme Court struck down the Gun- Free School Zones Act, holding that it exceeded Congress's Commerce Clause authority. I

"jurisdictional hook," the hook is too weakly connected to the problem (sexual crimes against minors) to sustain the statute as a proper exercise of Commerce Clause power. Questions about the nature of federalism, and, specifically, just how far the federal government may go into matters of traditionally state

ation is addressed. After all, it is a first principle th t the Constitution creates a federal government of enumerated powers. See United Slates'. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 552 (1995) ("Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the Federal Government serve to prevent the accum

'jurisdictional hook," the hook is too weakly connected to the problem (sexual crimes against minors) to sustain the statute as a proper exercise of Commerce Clause power. Questions about the nature of federalism, and, specifically, just how far the federal government may go into matters of traditionally state

e reading, even if permissible, would very likely exceed the Commerce Clause power as the Supreme Court presently construes it. In United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), the Supreme Court struck down the Gun- Free School Zones Act, holding that it exceeded Congress's Commerce Clause authority. I

"jurisdictional hook," the hook is too weakly connected to the problem (sexual crimes against minors) to sustain the statute as a proper exercise of Commerce Clause power. Questions about the nature of federalism, and, specifically, just how far the federal government may go into matters of traditionally state

e reading, even if permissible, would very likely exceed the Commerce Clause power as the Supreme Court presently construes it. In United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), the Supreme Court struck down the Gun- Free School Zones Act, holding that it exceeded Congress's Commerce Clause authority. I

"jurisdictional hook," the hook is too weakly connected to the problem (sexual crimes against minors) to sustain the statute as a proper exercise of Commerce Clause power. Questions about the nature of federalism, and, specifically, just how far the federal government may go into matters of traditionally state