“But then you have to, you know, ask yourself the question: Are nonambulatory swine so easily excludable as horses? Why couldn’t the state then exclude swine with various kinds of diseases? And then it would be clear that the state was doing something that the federal statute is supposed to be doing.”
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, voicing concerns about the potential “slippery slope” of California Deputy Attorney General Susan K. Smith in support of her state’s law banning the use of “downer” cattle in the food supply
Justices Likely to Overturn California Law Against Slaughtering ‘Downer’ Animals - NYTimes.com
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