Whether the Hobbs Act makes the robbery of any retail store that engages in interstate commerce a federal offense

Question Presented Whether the Hobbs Act makes the robbery of any retail store that engages in interstate commerce a federal offense. The Court expressly declined to delineate the scope of the Hobbs Act in Taylor v. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2074 (2016), and in Stirone v. United States, 361 U.S. 212 (1960). Notwithstanding Taylor’s intimations that the act may not apply to local, retail-store robberies like those charged in this case, the courts of appeals continue to maintain, just as before Taylor, that every retail-store robbery in the United States is a federal crime. This case squarely raises this important issue of federalism. ii