Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for the Tribeless, the dotless, and the peerless. I'm your host, Andrew Heaton. And today, I'm going to teach you a magical spell, an ancient incantation that you can invoke whenever you want

to neutralize the Constitution. Are you ready? Here it goes.

Well, because of the Commerce Clause.

Next time you're a member of Congress and somebody says,

the federal government can't do that.

Just look them dead in the eyes and utter Commerce Clause. Or let's say that you become an entire state legislature and

you want to stop another state legislature from doing something you don't like.

Take them to court and when the state legislature from doing something you don't like.

Take them to court, and when the judge says

they're an entirely different state,

why would you be able to make them stop?

Utter the magical words because commerce clause but I don't want you miss using the

spell I don't want you getting drunk and summoning hordes of goblins or accidentally dropping Milwaukee into another dimension,

this is a very serious spell which should only be used by responsible Wizards.

So we're going to spend the rest of today's episode spelling out the arcane blood

magic of the Commerce Clause, right here on the Political Orphanage.

But first, I want to deeply, deeply thank everyone who contributed to the Save My Dog Wallace from Elbow Cancer Fund.

Thank you. I read through every note that people have fixed via Venmo or PayPal or in the mail and can affirm that this is not only a very generous audience, it's also a very funny one. I laughed out loud several times. I have now added up the proceeds from your

generosity and I am happy to report I will not have to write a hot check to the canine

radiologist which is good because, as you know, those

guys tend to have mob connections.

In fact, even though the bills have stacked up prodigiously, I had to at one point get Wallace an

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