It is not every day that pigs can teach us a valuable lesson about the checks and balances preserved in our constitutional democracy. But with the confusion surrounding the upcoming Supreme Court case of National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, today might just be the day for that porcine legal demonstration. Full disclosure: I have eaten more pulled-pork sandwiches that I care to admit, I was raised on them in the South, and I would contend that Eastern North Carolina, apple-vinegar-based sauce is the best. But that does not speak to the issue that has been briefed right now before the highest court in the land.
By way of background, in 2018 California voters overwhelmingly enacted Proposition 12, which prohibits sales — within California — of specified animal products if said animals were raised under some rather extreme forms of abusive confinement. In doing so, California joined more than a dozen states that have enacted similar laws.
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