This is longtime Cater Daily podcast host, Caleb Brown. After thousands of episodes over nearly 18 years, I've moved on from the Cater Daily podcast, but in the interim, I, along with some of you, have selected some favorites. I hope they resonate with our current moment and continue to spark the desire to defend liberty. Thank you for listening.

This is the Cater Daily podcast for Monday, March 25th, 2024. I'm Caleb Brown. When Ohio

entrepreneur John Ream wanted to engage in a new hobby, that of home distilling, he realized

he'd be committing a federal felony. So he's suing the Treasury Department for the right to engage in this would-be hobby, and he's in part challenging a bizarre but long-standing interpretation of the U.S. Commerce Clause.

If Mr. Ream wins the right to engage in his hobby, it could mean big things for federal regulation.

Mr. Ream's attorney is Robert Alt.

He explains why this case has big implications.

I have had the pleasure.

Well, maybe not the pleasure.

The bemusement of explaining the Supreme Court's reasoning in the Wicked v.

Philburn decision, including to law students, and being met with

utter disbelief that that was the reasoning offered by the Supreme Court in that case that has

enabled so much mischief at the federal level. If you don't mind, can you characterize

or at least give us a brief summary of what that reasoning was? My pleasure to do so.

And I feel like as someone who runs the Buckeye Institute, it's particularly appropriate that I

should do so because Wicked versus Philburn,

regrettably, I think one of the worst decisions in the history of the United Supreme Court

arises from Ohio and involves an Ohio farmer, Roscoe Philburn, who had a farm just outside

of Dayton, Ohio. And during the Great Depression, he grew a number

of crops, including winter wheat, as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the federal government

in an attempt to essentially cartelize farming and to regulate farm prices, put caps on the amount of crops farmers could grow.

Farmer Philburn exceeded his quota, but an interesting tidbit is that the excess wheat,

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