AG Bird suing Massachusetts over pork bans

Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading 24 states in a brief asking the United States Supreme Court to rule that Massachusetts’s pork ban is unconstitutional. Massachusetts’s “Question 3” pork ban prevents other states from selling pork in or transporting through Massachusetts if farmers do not comply with Massachusetts’s hog-housing requirements. That means that even if Iowa-produced pork meets all Iowa and federal safety and quality standards, but not Massachusetts’s new restrictions, they cannot do business in that state. The states make the case that the Massachusetts pork ban violates the Constitution because states cannot pass laws that target raising hogs in other states.