and then on March 10th, he traveled to Wilmington and was arrested. Pendleton had a one-way airplane ticket to travel on March 12, 2008 from JFK to Prague, Czech Republic. II. JURISDICTION AND STANDARD OF REVIEW The District Court had jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 3231, and we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742. Our review of the Court‟s denial of Pendleton‟s motion for judgment of acquittal, its construction of SORNA, and its conclusion that SORNA is constitutional is plenary. III. ANALYSIS The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which included SORNA, 1“was enacted to close the loopholes in previous sex offender registration legislation and to standardize registration across the states.” United States v. Shenandoah, 595 F.3d 151, 154 (3d Cir. 2010). In response to previous legislation, by 1996 every state and the District of Columbia had mandatory sex offender registration laws, but “SORNA creates a national sex offender registry with the goal of eliminating inconsistencies among state laws.” Id. 1Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 was itself named the “Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act” (SORNA), and both 42 U.S.C. § 16913, which contains the sex offender registration requirement, and 18 U.S.C. § 2250, which contains the criminal enforcement provision under which Pendleton was convicted, were enacted through Title I of that Act. Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-248, §§ 101, 113, 141, 120 Stat. 587, 590, 593-94, 60102 (2006). As defined by statute, “SORNA” thus includes both §§ 16913 and 2250. In United States v. Shenandoah, we upheld the constitutionality of “SORNA” under the Commerce Clause, but did not specifically address § 16913. See United States v. Shenandoah, 595 F.3d 151, 160-61 (3rd Ctr. 2010)
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