Brinkopf v. Cape Girardeau Bridge Co.

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• holding that the government’s affidavits met the requirements of § 2518 because they “clearly identified the facilities to be tapped by their telephone numbers and by their electronic serial numbers”
• “We have repeatedly held that the ‘Controlled Substances Act concerns an obviously economic activity’ substantially affecting interstate commerce, namely, narcotics trafficking, and have sustained the Act against criminal defendants’ Lopez challenges.”
• “[D]rug trafficking activity clearly is a proper subject for federal regulation .... ”
• “The inclusion of ... jurisdictional elements precludes any serious challenge to the constitutionality of the money laundering statute ... because [if proven] it guarantees a legitimate nexus with interstate commerce.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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