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U.S. ban on making liquor at home to be reviewed by justices
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of the federal ban on home distilleries in a clash that will test the power of Congress.
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The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether the government can ban people from distilling spirits at home, after a lower panel declared restrictions dating back to the 1860s unconstitutional.
People who want the right to distill spirits in their private homes are celebrating the Supreme Court's decision to hear their case. The Supreme Court said Monday it'll consider if Congress had the constitutional authority to ban distilling spirits in homes in 1868.
The Supreme Court will review the 1868 home-distilling ban after a 5th-6th Circuit split; 15 states say unlike a good whiskey, this split will not age well.
The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of an 1868 federal law that imposes a tax on distilled spirits but also bans home distilleries – that is, the at-home production of spirits like bourbon and whiskey.
Conflicting appeals court rulings leave the lawfulness of home liquor distilling to mean two different things in Texas and Ohio, setting up a high court showdown over a century-old law.
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a challenge to a federal law barring the distilling of alcohol at home, weighing whether it oversteps the federal government’s powers. The high court said in an orders list released Monday morning that it will take up Department of Justice v.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Reconstruction-era ban on distilling alcohol in private homes. Why it matters: Americans can legally brew beer or make wine at home, but making whiskey, vodka or other spirits can land them in federal prison.
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to decide the legality of a federal ban on the home distilling of alcoholic spirits that was enacted in 1868 after the U.S. Civil War to crack down on liquor tax evasion.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a ban on distilling spirits in private homes more than 150 years ago.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of the federal ban on home distilleries in a clash that will test the power of Congress.
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