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Justice Brandeis

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3. The murderer should go to jail for life

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:37 PM

Sep 10

But I will say this. There is a legitimate constitutional involved as to why this is being charged as a federal crime. Are we going to say that any crime on a public transit system--buses, trains, subways, light rail--is therefore a federal crime because somehow involves interstate commerce? I'm skeptical of that argument.

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