{"id":98527,"date":"2026-07-29T07:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/buckeye-institutes-robert-alt-the-supreme-court-should-legalize-homemade-spirits\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:42:36","slug":"buckeye-institutes-robert-alt-the-supreme-court-should-legalize-homemade-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/buckeye-institutes-robert-alt-the-supreme-court-should-legalize-homemade-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckeye Institute&#8217;s Robert Alt: The Supreme Court Should Legalize Homemade Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Americans can legally make beer and wine at home but face a federal felony for distilling even a small amount of whiskey. Robert Alt, President and CEO of the Buckeye Institute, explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/27\/get_real_with_rcps_david_desrosiers_andrew_guilianis_world_cup_recap_and_a_new_whiskey_rebellion_in_the_courts.html\">on the latest episode of Get Real<\/a> why his organization is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging a decades-old federal law that criminalizes home distilling.  Alt discusses the split between federal appeals courts, the constitutional limits of the Commerce Clause, and whether the federal government has overreached by regulating what people do in their own homes. From the history of the Whiskey Rebellion to modern questions about entrepreneurship, personal freedom, and limited government, this conversation examines whether it&#8217;s time for the law to catch up with reality.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/28\/buckeye_institutes_robert_alt_the_supreme_court_should_legalize_homemade_spirits.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans can legally make beer and wine at home but face a federal felony for distilling even a small amount of whiskey. Robert Alt, President and CEO of the Buckeye Institute, explains on the latest episode of Get Real why his organization is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging a decades-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30035,579,2652,25312,21993,3465,609,15398,6352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}