This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, June 2nd, 2014.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Once again, the Supreme Court has weighed in on the case of a woman who attempted to harm a romantic rival with chemicals.

And apart from if she violated the chemical weapons treaty

is the question over Congress, potentially

expanding its own powers through treaties.

Ilia Shapiro, editor of Cato's Supreme Court review, evaluates today's opinion.

So we've been waiting for this case for a long time.

Indeed, it's the second time it's up at the Supreme Court and Cato has filed four briefs at varying stages of the game.

This is the treaty power case where if you'll recall,

Carol Ann Bond was upset that her former best friend had had an affair with her

husband and like most people in this situation I suppose got some chemicals part at, part that she ordered on Amazon, and sprinkled them

various places hoping to just teach her friend a lesson, not kill her or anything, but

ultimately she caused one minor chemical burn on her thumb. anything,

chemical burn on her thumb that was quickly washed off.

And then, rather than being prosecuted for assault or attempted murder,

harass anything under state law, the federal prosecutors

went after Mrs Bond for violating the federal legislation that implements the International

Chemical Weapons Convention. that

implements the International Chemical Weapons Convention.

Previously, the Supreme Court said unanimously that of course she has standing to raise a federalism or 10th Amendment claim saying that the federal government doesn't have the power

to prosecute her for this and now up again on the merits of the case

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