Supreme Court considers pork industry challenge to California animal welfare law

Californians approved Proposition 12 in 2018 with nearly 63% of the vote, a margin of more than 3 million votes. The state’s lawyers

The challengers say the measure impermissibly interferes with interstate commerce in part because almost all of the pork sold in California is produced out of state. The law also imposes an excessive burden on out-of-state entities without having a clear in-state benefit, they argue. As a result, they say, the law has an unlawfully broad extraterritorial effect.

“What the pork producers are asking for is quite unprecedented,” said Brian Frazelle, a lawyer with the Constitutional Accountability Center, a liberal legal group that filed a brief supporting the state.Michael Formica, chief legal strategist for the pork producers group, downplayed the impact a ruling against California could have, saying it would not prevent states from enacting environmental laws that protect the health of their people.

Best vote I ever cast: not to pay people to torture animals.

I challange you to show picture from inside one of the pig factory farms showing the pigs in these crates instead of outside as you did, which is not accurate reporting

glad to see NBC covering this case. People are very interested as it is about animal cruelty and our food system

We know the Supreme Court loves government pork

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They need to fix this. I like my pork nice and tender.

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Supreme Court hears pork industry's challenge to California animal welfare lawCalifornia voters decided in 2018 that pork sold in the state must originate with pigs that have room to turn around in their pens. So disgusting These poor animals have an intelligence at least equal to dogs. They are sentient beings; we should not make them experience hell on earth. The pork industry has bought out the GQP. This is tragic
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Pork industry challenging California animal welfare law before Supreme Court TuesdayOral arguments in the case, National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, will be heard on Tuesday. Professor Glenn Smith, who teaches constitutional law at California Western School of Law, joined Midday Edition on Monday to preview the case.
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