Home-distilling ban ruled unconstitutional

Monty
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:27:08 +0000
Politics & Elections

I think this is the correct forum for this. If not, mods, please relocate as the spirit moves you.

A federal judge in Texas ruled Congress was too big for its britches when it banned home-distilling. (The link goes to Yahoo.)

Devin Watkins, a lawyer for the Texas-based hobby group at the libertarian think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Reuters that the ruling “respects the rights of our clients to live under a government of limited powers.”

The hobby group, which represented the plaintiffs, and four of its 1,300 members filed a lawsuit in December against the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau and the Department of Justice, saying that the government’s regulatory reach could not extend to activities within a person’s home.

I guess Daisy May Moses would be happy the Infernal Revenue Service has been reined in.

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