Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety · ¶108

This is a deft maneuver but not a successful one, as it diverts our focus to the wrong relationship. “The relevant question is simply whether the means chosen are ‘reasonably adapted’ to the attainment of a legitimate end” sought under an enumerated power, not whether the means chosen are incidental to the power itself. Gonzales, 545 U. S., at 37 (Scalia, J., concurring in judgment) (quoting United States v. Darby, 312 U. S. 100, 121 (1941); emphasis added); see also Kebodeaux, 570 U. S., at 406 (Scalia, J., dissenting) (“[W]hat is necessary and proper to enforce a statute validly enacted pursuant to an enumerated power is . . . itself necessary and proper to the execution of an enumerated power”).

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