John Roberts: “If you're in B and you're aiming at C, but you hit somebody in A, that doesn't make a difference, does it?”

“And third, any causal nexus here is severely attenuated. Well, just before you, if you don't mind, because I'll lose track of the three of them, but otherwise wasn't directed at State A, but If you're in B and you're aiming at C, but you hit somebody in A, that doesn't make a difference, does it? Well, it certainly is true that if you are, say across a state border and you direct your conduct across the state border, many of the cases on which my friend relies fall into that paradigm.” (01:23–01:29)

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