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...luncheon appointment in the Executive Office of the White House. As they were in the midst of an amiable discussion, a Presidential secretary entered, put a slip of paper in the President's hands. It was a newsflash: the U. S. Supreme Court had just declared AAA unconstitutional, lock, stock & barrel (see p. 12). How President Roosevelt received this staggering piece of information was afterwards described by Secretary Dern...
Chunk . . . chunk . . . chunk, chunk. The pneumatic tubes shot the news to a waiting world. AAA was dead as NRA. Once again the Supreme Court had knocked a prime prop from under the New Deal...
...illusory." Thus, any comprehensive system of crop contracts and benefit payments, which in fact puts non-cooperators under economic compulsion, is as illegal as taxation if used for unpermitted purposes. Let Congress use income taxes or any other legal form of taxes to raise revenue in order to continue AAA and it will make no difference; AAA's system of crop contracts is still unconstitutional because the system is, in effect, the use of force on farmers...
Powers of the Court. Well did every one of the nine Justices know that their AAA decision would provoke a world of criticism of the powers of the Court. Before even the debate got to the public the Justices took it up between themselves. Said Mr. Justice Stone in a minority decision, highly critical of his colleagues' majority opinion: "The power of courts to declare a statute unconstitutional is subject to two guiding principles of decision which ought never to be absent from judicial consciousness. One is that courts are concerned only with the power to enact statutes...
Imponderables. Over & above the legislative mischances which may rise from the President's program and the disruptions within Congress, are two great unknowns. One is the actions of the Supreme Court. With decisions on AAA and the Bankhead Cotton Control Act close at hand, with decisions on the Guffey Coal Act. the Public Utility Act, the Labor Disputes Act in the offing, the possibility of one or more New Deal upsets means that at any time Congress may turn to tackle new legislative problems...