This week, Robert Alt, The Buckeye Institute’s president and chief executive officer, joined David DesRosiers on Get Real, RealClear’s premier streaming news show, to discuss what is at stake in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury—one of Buckeye’s two cases seeking to overturn the federal ban on home distilling. Buckeye filed its petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to hear the case, which raises important questions about the limits of federal power.

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’s time for the law to catch up with reality.