The United States Supreme Court ruled against the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation in a case challenging California’s Proposition 12 rules governing pork production. The 5-4 decision in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, who said, “While the Constitution addresses many weighty issues, the type of pork chops California merchants may sell is not on that list.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a partial dissent that many see laying out a potential roadmap for future challenges to laws like Proposition 12. In it, he…
