{"id":1067,"date":"2021-10-25T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/volume-53\/you-shall-go-no-further-the-hobbs-act-and-the-expansion-of-federal-jurisdiction\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:09:29","slug":"you-shall-go-no-further-the-hobbs-act-and-the-expansion-of-federal-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/volume-53\/you-shall-go-no-further-the-hobbs-act-and-the-expansion-of-federal-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"You Shall Go No Further: The Hobbs Act and the Expansion of Federal Jurisdiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hobbs Act was adopted in 1946 to combat what was, at the\u00a0time, most frequently referred to as \u201cextortion,\u201d \u201cpaying of tribute,\u201d or,\u00a0more colorfully, \u201chighway robbery.\u201d Congressional debate from the\u00a0time indicates that the Act was crafted to target a growing problem in\u00a0urban areas around the United States: the forced payment of fees for\u00a0farmers delivering goods to market. At the time, farmers would be\u00a0stopped upon entering major cities and be forced to either pay a fee or\u00a0hire a union driver to deliver their goods the remaining distance to local\u00a0markets. Thus, the \u201crobbery\u201d was most often referred to as \u201cextortion\u201d\u00a0or \u201cpaying of tribute,\u201d and was really only called \u201crobbery\u201d when\u00a0referencing the place where the crime would happen: on the highway.\u00a0However, when Congress sought to solve the problem, the term\u00a0\u201crobbery\u201d made its way into the Act. This historical fluke happened\u00a0despite congressional discussion of any intent to reach actual robberies\u00a0that may occur after the point at which goods had reached market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/53-0-Evola-you-shall-go-no-further.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hobbs Act was adopted in 1946 to combat what was, at the\u00a0time, most frequently referred to as \u201cextortion,\u201d \u201cpaying of tribute,\u201d or,\u00a0more colorfully, \u201chighway robbery.\u201d Congressional debate from the\u00a0time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4766,"featured_media":0,"parent":1030,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1067","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1067\/revisions\/1713"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}