Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1981-06-15

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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 substanti…

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