Supreme Court saves California's bacon with this ruling

In National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, the Supreme Court faced the latest in California’s endless drive to regulate every jot-and-tittle of business and the environment.

Robert Delahunty is a Washington Fellow of the Claremont Center for the American Way of Life.

In National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, the court faced the latest in California’s endless drive to regulate every jot-and-tittle of business and the environment. In 2018, with the support of almost two-thirds of the voters, California adopted an animal rights measure that prohibits the sale of pork – no matter its origin – unless farmers obeyed Sacramento’s breeding standards.

While California represents about 12 percent of the U.S. population and 14.5 percent of the economy, it husbands virtually no pork. California’s law attempts to govern pork production throughout the nation, as producers cannot economically build two separate businesses, one for California and one for the rest of the nation.