United States v. Alexander Walls

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• holding that because Congress found that sex trafficking has a substantial effect on interstate commerce in the aggregate, each individual action need only have a de minimis effect on interstate commerce
• holding that because Congress found that sex trafficking has a substantial effect on interstate commerce in the aggregate, each individual action need only have a de minimis effect on interstate commerce
• under plain error standard of review, the error must be “clear or obvious, rather than subject to reasonable dispute”
• “[W]hen Congress used the language ‘in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce’ in the [Trafficking Act], it intended to exercise its full powers under the Commerce Clause.”
• “Congress found that [sex] trafficking of persons has a substantial aggregate economic impact on interstate and foreign commerce . . . and that finding is not irrational”
• plain error standard of review

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