Washington, DC (KICD) — By one vote, the Supreme Court has upheld California’s voter approved proposition 12 saying that pork can only be sold in that state if the sows were raised in facilities giving them 24 square feet of space. Lawyers for the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation had argued the law violated the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution saying one state cannot make laws affecting activity in another state.

The ruling was NOT along ideological lines: Conservatives Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Amy Coney Barrett and liberals Sonya Sotomayor and Alana Kagan voted to uphold the California law. In the majority opinion Gorsuch wrote ” Companies that choose to sell products in various stats normally comply with the laws of those various states.”

Conservatives John Roberts, Sameul Alito, and Brent Kavanaugh; and liberal Katanya Brown Jackson sided with plaintiffs. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the minority opinion stating farmers did prove a substantial burden created by the 2016 law that would require added expense to sell pork in the nation’s largest state.

Enforcement of the law had been on hold pending today’s Supreme Court announcement.