Supreme Court Justices Question Residency Rules for Liquor Store Owners

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(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned a Tennessee law that imposes residency requirements on people to seeking to run liquor stores, taking up a rare test of the 1933 constitutional amendment that repealed Prohibition.

Tennessee requires people to live in the state for two years to get a retail liquor license and for 10 years to get a license renewed.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh was among the skeptics, saying the text of the 21st Amendment doesn’t support letting states impose rules designed to protect their local retailers from out-of-state competition.