"We finally won a three-decades-long battle over the commerce clause," John Eastman, a conservative constitutional scholar and a professor at Chapman Univerity, told me hours after the court's decision.
This might seem a paradox, given that the court upheld the legislation. But the decision may ultimately prove a Pyrrhic victory for supporters of expansive Congressional power.
Pyrrhic victory: achieved at excessive cost; also : costly to the point of negating or outweighing expected benefits
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