Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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activities that Congress may regulate as part of its commerce power: First, Congress may regulate the use of the channels of interstate commerce____ Second, Congress is empowered to regulate and protect the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce, even though the threat may only come from intrastate activities .... Finally, Congress’ commerce authority includes the power to regulate those activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, ... i.e., those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce. Id. at 558-59, 115 S.Ct. at 1629-30 (internal citations omitted). As in Lopez, the first and second categories are not relevant to defendant’s constitutional challenge to the statute. See id. at 559, 115 S.Ct. at 1629 . The prohibition on violence for the purpose
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding the first two categories inapplicable
B. holding confrontation clause inapplicable at sentencing
C. holding frady inapplicable
D. holding the act inapplicable to the united states in its role as employer
E. recognizing first two exceptions
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.