DAVID ANTHONY TAYLOR, PETITIONER v. UNITED STATES
Supreme Court of the United States, Alito, June 20, 2016,
Hobbs Act – Federal Jurisdiction – The commerce element of the Hobbs Act is met where the defendant committed a robbery with the intent to steal drugs or drug proceeds, regardless of whether the drugs were produced purely for intrastate use/sale.

(Dissent- Thomas – The Commerce Clause should not apply to purely intrastate commerce/activity)

The Court held in Gonzales v. Raich that intrastate, noncommercial cultivation of marijuana is still subject to the Commerce Clause.

Commerce Clause allows regulation of:
(1) “the use of the channels of interstate commerce”
(2) “the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce, even though the threat may come only from intra-state activities”
and (3) “those activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, … i.e., those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce.”