The most egregious court case ever to be excreted from the fecal matter produced by SCOTUS is no closer to being overturned than it was one year ago. On January 30, 2024, John Ream filed a case in the Southern district of Ohio against the US Treasury's right to regulate his home distillery. His case directly addresses the abuses that have been heaped on America since the 1942 ruling of Wickard v. Filburn, where SCOTUS unlawfully transferred American's rights to the central government.

On this 1 year anniversary, I thought it would be instructive to remind everyone of what is at stake, and possibly even ask people to start writing their Congressmen and ask them to reaffirm the Constitution through legislation rather than waiting for the near comatose speed at which cases percolate up to the Supreme Court.

A brief summary of Wickard v. Filburn is in order.

in 1942, Roscoe Filburn of Ohio was fined by the US government for growing more wheat than he was allowed under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Roscoe had no intention to sell his wheat. He was using it all internally on his farm, and so he argued since there was no interstate commerce component, the US federal government had no right to regulate it. SCOTUS, in a unanimous decision, overrode the clear words in the Constitution and decided that because he wouldn't be buying wheat on the open market that he otherwise might, that his actions were still effecting the national economy and therefore held the government had the right to regulate him. Note the government was not made to prove he would have bought the wheat (which he couldn't afford at artificially inflated prices), only that he would have been forced to buy it if he wanted to feed his animals. The ruling has served as the basis for most of the unconstitutional laws of Congress since then, allowing them to regulate anything that might in theory have an indirect effect on commerce.

Wickard needs to be overturned. And badly. John Ream's distillation case is aimed directly at that, telling the US Treasury that his private, home distillery has no interstate commerce component, and therefore the federal government has no authority to tax it or prohibit it. You can follow the case here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68204921/ream-v-united-states-department-of-the-treasury/

This is possibly the most important SCOTUS ruling that needs to be overturned since the Chevron Deference was officially scrapped last year. But it will take a long time for Ream v. U.S. Treasury to make its way to the top if it ever gets there at all. The US Treasury is still trying to get the case dismissed for lack of standing specifically because of Wickard, and because John Ream is currently prohibited from distilling due to the U.S. Treasury's regulations, so he has suffered no injury by their policies. It's a circular argument, but this is how the government works.

I thought people on this board might be interested to know who shafted us back in 1942, and what it's going to take to undo this injustice.

Note: I have no affiliation with this case. I don't even know who John Ream is. Only that Wickard needs to be overturned. Badly.